About us

The Regenerative Orthopedics group is a young, multidisciplinary, and international research team embedded within the department of Clinical Sciences of Companion Animals at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Utrecht University, the Netherlands. The research laboratory is situated in the Regenerative Medicine Center Utrecht (RMCU) which is located at Utrecht Science Park.
The group is led by Prof. Marianna Tryfonidou and focuses on osteoarthritis and low back pain due to intervertebral disc degeneration with a clear focus on clinical translation. The research follows the One Health-One Medicine principle and aims to make an impact on the health and lives of animals and human patients with low back pain and knee joint pain.
Latest news
- Welcome NinaYesterday, April 14th, Nina van Osnabrugge started her master internship in our group and will stay with us for 3…
- New publication: High-intensity zones in dogs with lumbosacral intervertebral disc degeneration: insights from MRI and histopathological findingsA huge congratulations to PhD candidate Amir Kamali on his first published manuscript! Excitingly, this study is the first to…
- …and the award goes to….Lisanne Laagland won the Award for best Oral presentation at the annual meeting of the Dutch Society for Matrix Biology…
- Congrats Lisanne and Xiaole!On March 20th and 24th, Lisanne Laagland and Xiaole Tong completed and defended their PhD at Utrecht University! With these…
- New publication: The Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Liraglutide in Equine Inflammatory Joint ModelsCongrats to Ann-Sofie Scheike who published her paper on the effects of a glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonist in equine…
- PhD defense Xiaole TongOn March 24th at 16:15, Xiaole will defend this thesis entitled “Advancing stem cell-based technologies for intervertebral disc regeneration. Exploring…