BMRC At Pitt Vanscoy Winter Academy

BMRC Executive Director Joon Y. Lee and Chief, UPMC Orthopaedic Service Line MaCalus V. Hogan, MD, MBA were invited guests to this year’s Vanscoy Winter Academy, held by the University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences. The annual event hosts speakers that present...

BMRC Orthopaedic BioBank Featured In PittMed Magazine – Winter 2025

Orland Bethel says the story behind his overwhelming generosity to the University of Pittsburgh, which now includes an $18.5 million gift to create a biobank, bears repeating. Suffering from spinal stenosis nearly a decade ago, he sought surgical care from Joon Lee,...

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...
Meet The Researcher – Prashanta Silwal, PhD

Meet The Researcher – Prashanta Silwal, PhD

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 Nepal. I have been interested in science since my early childhood. The unlimited potential that science offers has...

BMRC/ORS Announce Grant Partnership

BMRC/ORS Announce Grant Partnership

A joint grant partnership between the new Bethel Musculoskeletal Research Center (BMRC), the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and the Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS) was announced Friday at the 70th Annual ORS Meeting, held in Long Beach, California. These grants,...

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...