TLRO Receives 100% Acceptance of 60 Abstracts at Leading Orthopaedic Research Meeting

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The TLRO received 100% acceptance of 60 abstracts submitted for presentation at the Orthopaedic Research Society’s 2020 Annual Meeting in Phoenix, AZ, February 8-11.

The meeting is the world’s largest and most respected conference for research in orthopaedics. Acceptances include 4 podium presentations, 5 moderated poster podium presentations, and 51 poster presentations.

Podium Presentations

  • Jack Baumann, Undergraduate Student: Serum and Urine Biomarkers for Predicting Success or Failure after Osteochondral Allograft Transplantation Surgery
  • James L. Cook (Matt Smith), Faculty: Comparison of Biological Scaffolds for Augmentation of Partial Rotator Cuff Tears in a Preclinical Model
  • Spencer Delucia, Undergraduate Student: Defining Patient Phenotype Clusters Based on Chondrocyte Metabolic Profiles
  • Ishita Patel, Graduate Student: Utilizing Synovial Fluid, Serum and Urine Biomarkers to Predict Radiographic Osteoarthritis Severity

Moderated Poster Podium Presentations

  • Jack Baumann, Undergraduate Student: Longitudinal Assessment of Serum and Urine Biomarkers in Patients Following Osteochondral Allograft Transplantation in the Knee
  • James L. Cook (Brett Crist), Faculty: Post-traumatic Osteoarthritis-related Biomarker Responses to Leukoreduced Platelet Rich Plasma Treatment after Pilon Fractures
  • Nikki Grecco, Undergraduate Student: Metabolic Responses of Normal, Injured, and Osteoarthritic Chondrocytes in Primary Cell Culture
  • Alex Lee, Undergraduate Student: Characterizing the Metabolic Profile of the Infrapatellar Fat Pad from Osteoarthritic Knees
  • Lasun Oladeji, Resident and PhD Student: Mitigating Pro-inflammatory Responses of Articular Cartilage with Hyperosmolar Saline

Poster Presentations

  • Bree Baker, Postdoctoral Fellow: Joint Arthroplasty, Physical Function, and Fear of Falling: A Comparison of Older Adults
  • Jack Baumann, Undergraduate Student: Longitudinal Assessment of Serum and Urine Biomarkers in Patients Following Osteochondral Allograft Transplantation in the Knee
  • Chantelle Bozynski, Faculty: Serum and Urine Protein Biomarkers for Early Diagnosis of Hip Dysplasia
  • Sebastian Cardona Ramirez, PhD Student: Common ACL-Graft Fibroblast Gene Expression and Metabolic Responses to Mechanical Stress
  • Sebastian Cardona Ramirez, PhD Student: Sex Differences Among Intraarticular Knee Fibroblastic Responses to Cyclic Strain
  • Sebastian Cardona Ramirez, PhD Student: Fibroblastic Responses from Common ACL Grafts Are Affected by Sex and Mechanical Strain
  • Sebastian Cardona Ramirez, PhD Student: Synoviocytes Modulates the Mechanical Response of Fibroblasts from Common ACL Grafts
  • Nick Choma, Undergraduate Student: Comparison of ACL, PCL, and MCL Responses to Cytokine Stimulation
  • Spencer Delucia, Undergraduate Student: Effects of Passage Number and Culture Split Ratio on Chondrocyte Metabolic Responses
  • Liz Fletcher, Undergraduate Student: Evaluation of Intervertebral Disc Metabolic Responses to Injury and Sustained RANTES Stimulation Using a Rat-tail Whole Organ Explant Model
  • Matt Gao, Undergraduate Student: Correlations Among Metabolic Responses of Articular Cartilage and the Underlying Subchondral Bone from Osteoarthritic Knees
  • Matt Gao, Undergraduate Student: Correlations Among Histomorphometric Properties and Metabolic Responses of Bone Obtained from Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis
  • Matt Goa, Undergraduate Student: Correlations Among Pro-inflammatory, Degradation-Related, and Bone Metabolism Biomarkers Released by Bone Obtained from Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis
  • Nikki Grecco, Undergraduate Student: Effects of Osteochondral Allograft Storage Time on Chondrocyte Metabolism
  • Nikki Grecco, Undergraduate Student: Metabolic Responses of Normal, Injured, and Osteoarthritic Chondrocytes in Primary Cell Culture
  • Trent Guess, Faculty: Use of a Computational Knee Model Producing Failure Strain in the ACL to Elucidate Mechanisms for Non-contact ACL Rupture
  • Jake Kramer, PhD Student: Characterizing Biomarker Profiles in Spondylolisthesis Patients with Degenerative Lumbar Intervertebral Discs
  • Jake Kramer, PhD Student: Characterizing Biomarker Profiles for Degenerative Cervical and Lumbar Intervertebral Discs
  • Jake Kramer, PhD Student: Characterization of Biomarker Profiles for Patients Undergoing Lumbar Discectomy vs Fusion
  • Jake Kramer, PhD Student: Characterizing Biomarker Profiles for Degenerative Intervertebral Discs Stimulated with IL-1β
  • Keiichi Kuroki, Faculty: Histopathologic Characterization of Synovial Biopsies from Clinical Canine Patients with Cranial Cruciate Ligament Disease
  • James L. Cook, Faculty: Comparison of Meniscal Allograft Transplantation Techniques Using a Preclinical Canine Model
  • Naomi Lee, PhD Student: Development of a Translational Canine Model of Human Intervertebral Disc Degeneration
  • Naomi Lee, PhD Student: Comparison of Biomarker Production by Nucleus Pulposus from Non-Chondrodystrophic and Chondrodystrophic Canine Intervertebral Discs
  • Naomi Lee, PhD Student: Characterizing the Basal and Pro-inflammatory Cytokine-induced Metabolic Responses of Annulus Fibrosus and Nucleus Pulposus
  • Naomi Lee, PhD Student: Comparison of Biomarker Production by Annulus Fibrosus from Non-chondrodystrophic and Chondrodystrophic Canine Intervertebral Discs
  • Alex Lee, Undergraduate Student: Characterizing the Metabolic Profile of the Infrapatellar Fat Pad from Osteoarthritic Knees
  • Emma LePage, Masters Student: Effects of Cyclic Compression Magnitude on Pro-inflammatory and Degradative Responses by Whole Organ Intervertebral Discs
  • Emma LePage, Masters Student: Effects of Compressive Load Frequency on Pro-inflammatory and Degradative Responses by Whole Organ Intervertebral Discs
  • Emma LePage, Masters Student: Effects of Cyclic Compression on Intervertebral Disc Metabolism in a Whole Organ Rat Tail Model
  • Emma LePage, Masters Student: Characterizing Intervertebral Disc Responses to Sustained Pro-inflammatory Cytokine Stimulation
  • Elizabeth Messenger, Undergraduate Student: Characterizing Meniscal Metabolic Responses Based on Severity of Meniscal Pathology in the Osteoarthritic Knee
  • Hayley Ockerhausen, Undergraduate Student: Correlation Between Underlying Bone Biomechanical Properties and the Tissue’s Ex Vivo Metabolism and Histological Properties
  • Hayley Ockerhausen, Undergraduate Student: Correlation of Subchondral Bone Biomechanical Properties to Metabolic Responses, Histological Grade, and Biomechanical Properties of Articular Cartilage from Osteoarthritic Knees
  • Lasun Oladeji, Resident and PhD Student: Mitigating Pro-inflammatory Responses of Articular Cartilage with a Novel Hyperosmolar Saline Solution
  • Lasun Oladeji, Resident and PhD Student: Mitigating Pro-inflammatory Responses of Meniscus with Hyperosmolar Saline
  • Tyge Ortega, Undergraduate Student: Correlations Among Metabolic Responses and Histologic Characteristics of Articular Cartilage Obtained from Osteoarthritic Knees
  • Tyge Ortega, Undergraduate Student: Correlations Among Pro-inflammatory and Degradation-Related Biomarkers Released by Articular Cartilage from Osteoarthritic Knees
  • Tyge Ortega, Undergraduate Student: Characterizing Correlations Among Metabolic Responses of Articular Cartilage and Subchondral Bone from Osteoarthritic Knees
  • Ishita Patel, Masters Student: Utilizing Synovial Fluid Biomarkers to Distinguish Radiographic Osteoarthritis Severity
  • Ishita Patel, Masters Student: Correlation of Synovial Fluid, Serum, and Urine Biomarker Concentrations from Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis
  • Muhammad Salim, Undergraduate Student: Correlations Among Biomechanical Properties, Metabolic, and Histological Characteristics of Articular Cartilage from Osteoarthritic Knees
  • Muhammad Salim, Undergraduate Student: Correlations Among Articular Cartilage Biomechanical Properties and Metabolic, Biomechanical and Histomorphometric Characteristics of Bone from Osteoarthritic Knees
  • Aaron Stoker, Faculty: Serum and Urine Biomarkers can Distinguish Extent of Articular Cartilage Pathology in Patients Undergoing Osteochondral Allograft Transplantation Surgery
  • Jack Sudekum, Undergraduate Student: Comparison of Methods for Whole Elbow Osteochondral Allograft Preservation
  • Jack Sudekum, Undergraduate Student: Comparison of Methods for Whole Ankle Osteochondral Allograft Preservation
  • Luke Troyer, Undergraduate Student: Comparison of Relevant Metabolic Profiles for Male vs Female Anterior Cruciate Ligament, Synovium, Quadriceps Tendon and Patellar Tendon Explants
  • Luke Troyer, Undergraduate Student: Effects of Patient Age on Metabolic Profiles of Anterior Cruciate Ligament, Synovium, Quadriceps Tendon and Patellar Tendon Explants at the Time of ACL Reconstruction
  • Luke Troyer, Undergraduate Student: Effects of Time from ACL Injury to Reconstruction on Metabolic Responses of Anterior Cruciate Ligament and Synovium
  • Preston Wolfe, PhD Student: Longitudinal Assessment of Serum, Urine, and Synovial Fluid Biomarkers Following Bone-patellar Tendon-bone Anterior Cruciate Ligament Autograft Reconstruction Using a Canine Model
  • Preston Wolfe, PhD Student: Use of Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) to Characterize Bacterial DNA Profiles for Patients Undergoing Total Shoulder Arthroplasty

Presenting Authors and Titles (printable list)