News

December 2014

SJMSS Article Published 30 December 2014 We've just published an article in the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports investigating the inflammatory response of tendons to overload injury. We have shown that the interfascicular matrix is constantly turning over faster than the rest of the tendon matrix. However, in response to overload, the whole ... [more]

November 2014

New Advisory Board Positions 19 November 2014 Dr Screen has been invited to join the advisory board for the next annual conferences of both the International Symposium on Ligaments & Tendons and the British Society for Strain Measurements, making 2015 a busy year! [more]

ORS Abstracts Accepted 10 November 2014 Congratulations to Dr Chavaunne Thorpe and Dr Ewa Spiesz, who have both had abstracts accepted for the Orthopaedic Research Society conference next year.

October 2014

EVJ Review Article Published 1 October 2014 We've just published an article in the Equine Vet Journal, providing a complete overview of all our work looknig at how equine energy storing tendons function effectively. Thorpe CT, Spiesz EM, Chaudhry S, Screen HRC, Clegg PD (2014) Science in Brief: Recent Advances into Understanding Tendon Function and Injury Risk [more]

September 2014

New Frontiers in Tendon Research Conference 11 September 2014 Dr Screen has just returned from an NIH and ORS sponsored tendon conference in New York, looking at shaping the future of our field. As part of the team running focus groups at the conference, she will now be involved in writing a review article on the topic. [more]

International Scientific Tendinopathy Symposium 5 September 2014 Congratulations to Dr Chavaunne Thorpe, Dr Ewa Spiesz and Daniel Rowson, who all achieved oral presentation opportunities at the ISTS conference in Oxford.

Arthritis Research UK 2 September 2014 Congratulations to Dharmesh Patel, who gave a talk on his latest research to the Oliver Bird-Arthritis Research UK PhD conference at Kings College London, receiving some excellent feedback. Thank you to E. Stamatiades at Kings College for providing a super photo of the event! [more]

July 2014

World Congress of Biomechanics 7 July 2014 Dr Screen attended the WCB in Boston, and gave two invited talks covering some of our latest research concerning tendon mechanics and injury.

JMBBM Paper Published 1 July 2014 We've just published a paper showing how creep fatigue damage affects positional tendons, and comparing some of the different methods of analysing local mechanics in samples. We've shown that the cells may not be tightly attached to the matrix, and subsequently shielded from some of the applied strain. Shepherd JS, ... [more]

June 2014

Good luck to Mathilde and Marta 20 June 2014 Mathilde and Marta have just finished and are submitting their MSc projects. We wish them luck for their vivas and the remainder of their degree programmes. We went out to Hyde Park to celebrate their finishing this week (June 2014) [more]

May 2014

Research Away Day 12 May 2014 We teamed up with Martin Knight's group for an away day at Box Hill in Surrey. We all enjoyed a fun day out, and even managed to star in a film by local producers about the Box Hill area!

April 2014

Acta Biomaterialia Paper published 16 April 2014 We've just published a paper showing the fatigue loading of tendon fascicles not only causes their specialised spring-like features to breakdown, but that this relates to how well the fascicle is able to recoil after loading. Good recoil is important for healthy tendon function, and we have shown that ability ... [more]

Congratuations to Marta Godinho 1 April 2014 Marta has successfully been awarded the new Bonfield PhD scholarship to begin her PhD with our group in September, looking at "The Role of Elastin in Tendon Function".

Welcome to Mathilde Lestoille 1 April 2014 We welcome Mathilde, who has come to join our group for the next 4 months, working towards her Masters in Engineering from Ecole Polytechnique. She will be working on characterising the mechanics in different types of tendon fascicles. [more]

March 2014

Lab visit from Jill Cook 1 March 2014 We were delighted to welcome Professor Jill Cook to a group meeting today, covering research outputs from our group and that of Dr Dylan Morrissey. We all enjoyed an exciting morning of presentations, learning about each other's latest research and sharing new ideas. [more]

January 2014

Journal Royal Society Interface published 16 January 2014 We've just published a paper describing more of the specialist mechanisms by which energy storing tendon function and damage. We've shown the fascicles are coiled like springs to be fatigue resistance but repetitive loading causes them to unwind and become less efficient. We've seen unwinding happens with age, which may ... [more]

Welcome to Dr Ewa Spiesz! 8 January 2014 We welcome Ewa who has just started with the group on a three year Arthritis Research UK funded project to learn more about tendon injury processes. She will be looking at the matrix material holding the tendon together, as we think this might be the key component controlling healthy tendon ... [more]