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Upcoming Deadlines
Joint Motion Trainee Program
2012-13 Intake
June, 2013
(Start Sept 1 2013)
Upcoming JuMP Events
Seminar Speaker Series:
Dates TBD
MSK Annual Retreat
May 10 2013
ICHIL Course Module 2: Innovation & Commercialization
CANCELLED for 2012
Also of interest:
Dr. Frank Beier is the Canada Research Chair in
Musculoskeletal Health and an Associate Professor in the Department of
Physiology and Pharmacology in the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at
the University of Western Ontario. Dr. Beier works on the biology of cartilage, both
during skeletal development and the pathogenesis of osteoarthritis. He uses
genetic, molecular and cell biological approaches, including microarrays,
genetically modified mice and surgical models of osteoarthritis, to understand
the signaling mechanisms controlling cartilage physiology. Recent work from Dr.
Beier’s laboratory and other groups demonstrates that the two processes of
cartilage development and osteoarthritis are intimately linked.
He has held a CIHR/The Arthritis Society New
Investigator Award from 2001 to 2006 and a PREA award from the Government of
Ontario from 2003 to 2008. In addition, he received several awards at UWO,
including a Faculty Scholar Award from 2007 to 2009 and several Dean’s Awards
of Excellence. He submitted 2 patents on the treatment of osteoarthritis.
Frank Beier
