Bone Research Unit
Director:
Prof Ugo Ripamonti
E-mail: ugo.ripamonti@wits.ac.za
The Bone Research Unit
is a joint undertaking between MRC and the University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg. It is committed to gaining insights into the mechanisms of bone,
cartilage and connective tissue morphogenesis, development and regeneration,
and to promoting and accelerating the healing of bone in man.
The Research Unit strives
to provide new information in order:
- to plan therapeutic
strategies to initiate and manipulate tissue morphogenesis and bone regeneration;
- to facilitate bone
growth into prosthetic implants;
- to restore local and
systemic bone mass; and
- to develop synthetic
bone substitutes for the twenty-first century.
The Unit fosters an intellectual
environment which encourages free, innovative thinking, and the transfer of
knowledge and implementation of skills, in order to ensure that highest possible
level of scientific performance is initiated and maintained.
An important function
of the Bone Research Unit is:
- to train and assist
postgraduate students at Masters and Doctoral levels; and
- to nurture a national
and international scientific network which contributes towards the achievement
of mutual research goals.
The Bone Research Unit
is likely to produce significant contributions in the areas of tissue repair,
regeneration and morphogenesis, of relevance both to Southern Africa and the
rest of the world. |
