PI: Qian Chen, PhD
The COBRE for Skeletal Health and Repair at Rhode Island Hospital enables clinicians, scientists, engineers and biologists to work side by side on multidisciplinary research, helping to better understand cartilage and joint health mechanisms and develop strategies for the prevention and treatment of skeletal joint diseases.
There are currently more than 100 COBRE research centers in the US, and Rhode Island Hospital’s COBRE is one of just two that are nationally focused on bone and joint diseases.
The Rhode Island Hospital COBRE has the unique distinction of conducting research projects on both adult and pediatric skeletal health and diseases; conducting basic research as well as clinical and translational research; and working toward developing repair and regeneration strategies using tissue engineering.