Welcome

The Cartilage Restoration Center (CRC) works to advance the early diagnosis and treatment of articular cartilage and joint injury and degeneration to delay or prevent the onset of disabling osteoarthritis.

The CRC directed by Dr. Constance R. Chu, is leading translational research from the bench to bedside in three main areas: cartilage tissue engineering, novel cartilage imaging technologies, and chondroprotection.

The research focuses on improving cartilage repair potential and minimizing stress to healthy, degenerative, and aged cartilage. The laboratory seeks solutions to these problems from many angles --from the development of smart polymers for controlled in vivo release of growth factors, to assessing human stem cell potential, to the application of imaging technologies like optical coherence tomography (OCT).

The research in the CRC is funded by the National Institutes of Health and other funding sources.