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: Disc-Derived Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells and Environmental Cues for Nucleus Pulposus RegenerationCongrats to Lisanne Laagland and colleagues for their latest paper where they explored an alternative for notochordal cells using human…
- Regenerative Orthopedics group at Ombion Launch Event!On July 7th, we proudly celebrated the official launch of Ombion – Centre for Animal-free Biomedical Translation. The Regenerative Orthopedics…
- New internship position: development of an ex vivo model for local delivery and joint regenerationWe have a new internship position! Check it out here >>
- Three new University Teaching Qualifications!The Regenerative Orthopedics group is incredibly proud of Lizette Utomo, Michelle Teunissen, and Ineke Smit for achieving their University Teaching…
- Successful start of minor in Veterinary MedicineThe first 6 weeks of the minor in Veterinary Medicine went by successfully through Through Problem Based Learning (PBL) led…
- 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…