Project Description
Professor, Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine
tgross@u.washington.edu
(206) 897-5604
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Identification of osteogenic skeletal loading regimens
The role of muscle function as a mediator of bone homeostasis
Neuromuscular dysfunction and neurogenic inflammation
Strategies to inhibit heterotopic ossification
The role of muscle function as a mediator of bone homeostasis
Neuromuscular dysfunction and neurogenic inflammation
Strategies to inhibit heterotopic ossification
Our group studies how bone cells and bone as a tissue perceives and responds to mechanical stimuli (or the lack of stimuli). Our work is multi-disciplinary and ranges from molecular biology to in vivo imaging of the skeleton.
PhD, Mechanical Engineering, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1993
