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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
Clinical Osteoarthritis & Diagnostics Imaging of Bones and Joints Program
Reviewed July 19, 2008
Research Areas
- Clinical osteoarthritis and the osteoarthritis initiative
- Epidemiology and pathogenesis
- Environmental and genetic risk factors
- Treatment, prevention, and diagnosis
- In vivo methods for macro and micro scale imaging of bones and joints
- Skeletal architecture and mechanical properties of bone
- Bone quality assessment
- Novel methods for cartilage and joint imaging
Staff Contact
Gayle E. Lester, Ph.D.
Program Director
Clinical Osteoarthritis & Diagnostics Imaging of Bones and Joints Program
Division of Musculoskeletal Diseases
NIAMS, NIH, DHHS
One Democracy Plaza
6701 Democracy Blvd. Ste. 800
Bethesda, MD 20892-4872
Email: lester1@mail.nih.gov