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
- New publication: Somatic cell reprogramming from different origins and donors into iPSC, with four factors OSKM using viral Sendai vectorsiPSpine is moving forward with the six donor-matched cell lines to study how the tissue-origin may affect differentiation into matrix-producing…
- New internship position: mRNA-loaded LNPs as regenerative treatment against intervertebral disc degenerationAre you looking for an exciting internship position? See the full description here >>
- Meet us at TERMIS-EU 2025!Lizette Utomo will join the TERMIS-EU conference from May 20th-23rd held this year in Freiburg, Germany. Although she’s no longer…
- 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…