Fifty Years of Cartilage Research in Pittsburgh-A Department's Contribution to Cartilage Tissue Engineering

Historically, departments of Orthopaedic Surgery have led new and innovative research in many different fields. Cartilage research is one of those that the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh has pioneered since the foundation of the Ferguson Laboratory more than 50 years ago with many marvelous scientists and clinicians having conducted extraordinary research that still affect today's cartilage research. Nowadays, the department has 14 orthopaedic laboratories of different disciplines with over 150 people and 30 faculty members that continue to contribute to our understanding of cartilage injury and degenerative disease.