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Funding
- Division Overview
- Bone Biology
- Bone Diseases
- Cartilage and Connective Tissue
- Clinical Osteoarthritis & Diagnostic Imaging of Bones and Joints
- Muscle Development and Physiology
- Muscle Disorders and Therapies
- Musculoskeletal Development, Tissue Engineering, and Regenerative Medicine
- Orthopaedic Research
Orthopaedic Research Program
Reviewed July 19, 2008
Research Areas
- Clinical, epidemiologic and outcomes research in orthopaedics and musculoskeletal rehabilitation
- Sports medicine, fitness, musculoskeletal injury prevention
- Musculoskeletal occupational health
- Biomaterials, orthopaedic devices and joint replacement (includes implant wear and the biologic response to it)
- Repetitive motion disorders
- Biologic repair of musculoskeletal tissues (tissue engineering, artificial matrices, gene therapy)
- Musculoskeletal biomechanics
Staff Contact
Jim Panagis, M.D., M.P.H.
Program Director
Orthopaedics Research Program
Division of Musculoskeletal Diseases
NIAMS, NIH, DHHS
One Democracy Plaza
6701 Democracy Blvd. Ste. 800
Bethesda, MD 20892-4872
Email: panagisj@mail.nih.gov