Keynote speakers at the First Dutch OA Research Day

Theme: The future of OA research .. Team Up !

Professor Mohit Kapoor is the Co-Director of the Schroeder Arthritis Institute in Toronto. He holds Canada Research Chair in the mechanisms of joint degeneration and a Chair in Arthritis Research at the dept. of Surgery and the dept. of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University of Toronto.

In his presentation (The future of OA research: Phenotyping) Mohit will focus on how our field should recognize different subtypes of osteoarthritis to be able to advance our understanding and eventually develop personalized treatments.

Gerjo van Osch is professor of Connective Tissue Regeneration, dept of Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine at Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam; Gerjo is also vice-dean of research at Erasmus UMC. Gerjo is a laureate of the ‘Engineering and Physical Sciences’ Suffrage Science award.

In her presentation (The future of OA research : Pathomechanics) Gerjo will focus on the collaborative effort of the NWA consortium LoaD to identify a personalized hotspot between mechanical overloading and underloading, for optimal cartilage condition.

Professor Keita Ito chairs the research group Orthopaedic Biomechanics at Eindhoven University and is also affiliated to the Orthopedics Department of University Medical Center Utrecht. Keita is president of the World Council of Biomechanics.

In his presentation (The future of OA research : Tissue Engineering) Keita will focus on collaborative efforts of the NWA consortium LS-NeoCarE to employ tissue engineering as a means to replace cartilage defects in weight bearing joints.

Nico Verdonschot is professor of orthopedic biomechanics at Radboud University and also affiliated to the University of Twente. Nico and his team won the 5th Grand Challenge Competition to Predict In Vivo Knee Loads.

In his presentation (The future of OA research : Cohort studies) Nico will introduce the collaborative research program TopTreat, in which attention is given to biological and biomechanical biomarkers and explained how win-win situations can be created.