The University of Michigan
received
a
$3.9
million
grant
from
the
National
Institue of Health to fund its
musculoskeletal
research,
a
program which involves several
schools including the School of
Dentistry, the School of Public
Health and LSA on Aug. 30.
Musculoskeletal
work
involves the way the muscles,
skeleton, tendons and more
relate to one another and work
together.
The grant funds will be
utilized
by
the
Michigan
Integrative
Musculoskeletal
Health
Core
Center
—
a
program which combines all of
the musculoskeletal research
being done at the University by
researchers across a variety of
fields. It centralizes certain ideas
for testing, such as how strong
one’s bones or muscles are, so
that the money will be utilized
by researchers across a variety
of
departments
conducting
musculoskeletal research.
Core
Center
Director
Karl
Jepsen,
professor
and
associate chair of research in
the Department of Orthopaedic
Surgery, said the interest in
musculoskeletal
research
is
massive at the University.
“In
every
corner
of
the
campus, someone has some
sort of interest in bone, muscle,
tendon, ligament, cartilage,” he
said.
For example, he said, the
Dentistry School is interested
in tissue regeneration, while
the
College
of
Engineering
is interested in orthopedics.
The field also includes a lot of
research in aging and ways to
stay fit.
“Michigan
really
pushes
the boundaries for integrated
research,” Jepsen said. “A lot
of research that is going on is
funded at a single, investigated
level tend to be very reductionist.
People who study bone will only
study bone. People who study
muscle will only study muscle.”
Jepsen said what is missing
from the field is people who
study the interactions between
bone and muscle. The Core
Center allows the study of that
intersection,
pushing
those
boundaries
to
study
these
interactions.
Susan
Brooks,
associate
director of the Core Center
and professor of molecular and
integrative physiology, wrote
in an email interview that the
Core Center uses the diverse
schools within the University
to advance its research beyond
what would have been possible
in an individual’s laboratory
and works to bridge different
fields.
“It is a major challenge to
track down the knowledge
that one needs at such a large
institution,” she wrote. “This
Core Center will facilitate
bringing people in contact
with the expertise that they
need, and perhaps didn’t even
know existed on campus.”
Jepsen and Brooks both
expressed that they hope the
research done with the grant
funds will push for change in
the musculoskeletal research.
“The result, we hope, will
be to increase the impact of
the collective activities of basic
scientists, clinicians, engineers
to improve musculoskeletal
health
throughout
the
lifespan,” Brooks wrote.
Jepsen said the NIH was
very interested in the ways the
program was bringing people
together.
“We had an opportunity to
create an impact on the field,”
he said.
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$3.9 million grant awarded by NIH
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School of Dentistry, LSA and School of Public Health involved
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