Congratulations to our students who presented at the Student Research Day, Department of Orthopaedics Grand Rounds at Rhode Island Hospital and Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

Jonathan Franco, BA’17, mentored by Dr. Chat Jayasuriya, PhD, presented his honors thesis work titled “Cartilage-derived stem cells for meniscal repair and prevention of posttraumatic osteoarthritis”.

Stephany Vasquez, MS ’17, BME, mentored by Dr. Bahar Bilgen, PhD, presented her masters thesis work titled “High and Low Compressive Loading on Tissue-Engineered Cartilage”.

Kevin Yan, BA’17, BIO, mentored by Dr. Wentian Yang, MD, PhD, presented his honors thesis work titled “SHP2 regulation of pre-osteoclast development and cytokine production”.