Skeletal Mechanobiology & Biomechanics Lab

Next up, find us at the RIG Digital Twins: Accelerating Innovation in Orthopaedic Research session! Ben will be joining the session to give a poster pitch. 👯

(3/3) And Shengzhi Luan will be presenting his work titled “Data-Driven Multiscale Modeling for Vertebral Trabecular Elasticity” at Poster #1557 from 5:30-6:15 PM. 📈

(2/3) Lab alum, @TimOJosephson, will be presenting his research titled “Processing Conditions Affect Material Microstructure and Cell Activity in Hydroxyapatite Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Engineering” at Poster #1704 from 4:45-5:30 PM. 🦠🔬

(1/3) Come see us at #ORS2026 at Monday’s Poster Session #2! Ben Olowu is presenting his research on “Validation of MRI- and CT-based Finite Element Modeling of the Proximal Femur Under Sideways Fall” at Poster #1260 from 4:45-5:30 PM. 🩻

And @EliseFMorganPhD will be presenting work from lab alum, @neilfrings, titled the “Influence of Structural and Material Properties on the Risk of Bony Endplate Failure During Vertebral Fracture” at poster #707 🦴

Find us at @ORSsociety #ORS2026 this Saturday at Poster Session 1! Emily McCarthy is presenting her team’s capstone research titled “Assessment of Rodent Gait Relative to Pain as a Means of Evaluating Fracture Recovery” at Poster #629 🐭

Excited to be heading to Charlotte for #ORS2026! Stay tuned for info about our upcoming poster presentations and opportunities to catch up with our lab. ☀️

Our lab is excited to share that our amazing PI, @EliseFMorganPhD, has been selected as the next Dean of the College of Engineering!! Congratulations, Elise!🥂

@EliseFMorganPhD gave an outstanding keynote at @ORSsociety Asian Leadership Forum Network Breakfast fast. It is greatly appreciated that both @ORSsociety Presidents Susan Bukata and Suzanne Maher joined to support the community as well as Dr. Savio Woo and Dr. Rocky Tuan, previous Keynote speakers. Also wonderful to welcome @HeoLab as Co-chair of ORS ALF.

(4/4) And our newest post-doc, Mengyao, will be presenting findings from her previous work entitled “PRMT5 Deficiency Under Low Se Status Exuberates Cartilage ECM Degradation” at Poster #2331 from 6:15 - 7 PM.

(3/4) Next up, @NeilFrings will be presenting his work on the “Biomechanical, Structural, and Composition Characterization of the Vertebra-disc Interface” at Poster #1591 from 6:15 - 7 PM.

(1/4) Want to connect with our lab on Monday at #ORS2025? You can find our lab at Poster Session 2! Check out the info below 👇 for topics being presented:

If you're an undergraduate interested in a orthopaedics-based summer research opportunity in Boston, apply today for the Center for Skeletal Research's Summer Scholars Program! Deadline to apply is Feb 14 ❤️csr-mgh.org/summer-interns…

The SMBL is excited to attend #ORS2025 starting next FRIDAY!! 🙌 Be sure to catch @EliseFMorganPhD speaking at the Bone Quality in Osteoporosis session (5:00 PM), about the vertebral bony endplate’s role in osteoporosis!

Happy Halloween from the SMBL!🎃It's bound tibia good one. - love, the SMBL skeleton

Had a great time presenting my work at #ASBMR2024!

(5/5) How do these designs perform in vitro and in vivo, and how can we use this optimization approach to better understand skeletal cell mechanobiology? Stay tuned!

(4/5) We show that our microenvironment-focused mixed-topology optimization approach generates enhanced scaffold designs using literature-based scoring functions while also controlling for other scaffold properties, like apparent modulus.

(1/5) How can cues from the microenvironment inform scaffold design for bone tissue engineering? Check out our new paper “Mechanobiological optimization of scaffolds for bone tissue engineering” in Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology rdcu.be/dO654 @TimOJosephson