2025 BMRC/ORS Fellowship – Apply Today!

Get up to $30,000 in funds to support your translational basic science or clinical musculoskeletal research project in 2025. Become a Bethel Fellow and apply today to the BMRC/ORS Fellowship, now open for applications.  The BMRC aims to support the next...

Apply Now – BMRC/Orthopaedic Surgery Research Fellowship Applications Now Open

Deadline: March 1, 2025 (Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis) Apply here or paste this URL into your browser: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd5ZMB-OSL_Plisesx6rk5vkwOesKmeXiezMvOx8m7LvDwKcQ/viewform?usp=sf_link Application Requirements Cover...

Pioneering BioBank Launched with $18.5M Investment to Revolutionize Musculoskeletal Disease Research

The Orland Bethel Family Foundation has announced a significant investment of $18.5 million to establish a biological specimen repository within the Orland Bethel Family Musculoskeletal Research Center (BMRC) at the University of Pittsburgh. This initiative aims...
Meet The Researcher – Kurt Weiss, MD

Meet The Researcher – Kurt Weiss, MD

Can you share a bit about your early life and what sparked your interest in research, medicine and orthopaedics/bioengineering? I was born and raised in Pittsburgh’s North Hills, attending St. Teresa Elementary School and North Hills High School. I was diagnosed with...

2024 Seminar Calendar

2024 Seminar Calendar

January 17: Dr. Jie Shen, Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine "Fracture Nonunion: New Insights into Mechanism and Therapy" February 12: Dr. Volker Musahl and Dr. Richard Debski - Biomechanics March 11: Dr....

Meet The Researcher – Allison Bean, MD, PhD

Meet The Researcher – Allison Bean, MD, PhD

Can you share a bit about your early life and what sparked your interest in research, medicine and orthopaedics/bioengineering? When I was in high school, my parents (both civil engineers) told me about the recently established field of biomedical engineering or...

Meet The Researcher – Dr. Hang Lin, PhD

Meet The Researcher – Dr. Hang Lin, PhD

Can you share a bit about your early life and what sparked your interest in research, medicine and orthopaedics/bioengineering? When I was a Ph.D. student looking for a lab to do my thesis, I was fascinated by the tissue engineering-related work in Dr. Jianwu Dai’s...