BMRC Orthopaedic BioBank Reaches Milestone

Just weeks after the Orland Bethel Musculoskeletal Research Center (BMRC) received an $18.5 million gift to create a first-of-its-kind biobank, it has started gathering specimens. The first tissue was collected on Oct. 30, and by mid-November the BMRC Orthopaedic...

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...
Meet The Researcher – Albert Lin, MD

Meet The Researcher – Albert Lin, MD

Can you share a bit about your early life and what sparked your interest in research, medicine and orthopaedics? I’m a native Pittsburgher through and through.  I was born in West Penn Hospital, grew up in Monroeville and went to Shady Side Academy.  My...

Meet The Researcher – John R. Fowler Jr., MD

Meet The Researcher – John R. Fowler Jr., MD

Can you share a bit about your early life and what sparked your interest in research, medicine and orthopaedics? I was born in Pittsburgh and grew up in Plum until about 3rd grade when my family moved to Erie.  I have always been interested in science and started to...

100+ Applications For First Year of Bethel Fellowship Grants

100+ Applications For First Year of Bethel Fellowship Grants

Today we are celebrating a highly successful first round of applications for our inaugural class of Bethel Fellows! We received an outstanding amount of interest from the MSK research community, and it proves to us that grants for early- and mid-career scientists are...

Meet The Researcher – Mark W. Rodosky, MD

Meet The Researcher – Mark W. Rodosky, MD

Tell us a little about your early life and what sparked your interest in research. I grew up in a small Midwestern farming town surrounded by animals and plants.  From the time I was a small boy, I enjoyed using all my senses to explore all of the biology that...

First Summer Student Research Program (SSRP) Cohort Announced

First Summer Student Research Program (SSRP) Cohort Announced

Congratulations to Michael Bardos, Joseph Garzia, Anneka Gernert, Marissa Mansour, and Lorin Planinsic for being selected as part of the inaugural class of the BMRC's Student Summer Research Program. BMRC’s SSRP provides undergraduate and medical students from within...

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...