Conference Description
The Musculoskeletal Biology and Bioengineering GRS provides a unique forum for young doctoral and post-doctoral researchers to present their work, discuss new methods, cutting edge ideas, and pre-published data, as well as to build collaborative relationships with their peers. Experienced mentors and trainee moderators will facilitate active participation in scientific discussion to allow all attendees to be engaged participants rather than spectators.
The theme of the GRS will be “Integrating Diverse and Multidisciplinary Approaches to Musculoskeletal Health” which expands on and integrates the key themes of the GRC. The GRS will focus on mentorship and career development for our attendees (post-baccalaureate students, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and other junior scientists). Specifically, we will highlight common barriers in academic and clinical life by focusing on the perspective of career trajectories told through the lens of personal and professional challenges. This theme will be explored scientifically by highlighting multidisciplinary and cutting-edge research that uses novel methods and techniques to study the development, aging, and disease of musculoskeletal tissues with biological, engineering, and clinical approaches. The content of the scientific sessions will be selected from abstracts submitted by GRS attendees. Musculoskeletal investigators in academia and medicine across different career stages and disciplines will be invited to share their insights on the challenges and current & future directions of the musculoskeletal research field to enrich the professional development of our junior investigators. We will include a diverse mentorship panel to provide our junior investigators with advice, insights, and strategies to help guide their future career transitions.
