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Irish Award for Adult Stem Treatment for Arthritis Discovery : 25th Jul 08
"This is a Highly Complex Study, But One that Holds Particular Promise"
In Ireland, Trinity College Dublin’s Dr Daniel Kelly has won the President's €1 million Young Researcher Award for his study of adult stem cells used to create replacement cartilage for arthritic joints. New treatments for arthritis could emerge from his study of how stem cells react to the complex mechanical forces within knee, hip and other joints. The work could see the development of replacement cartilage grown outside the body and then implanted in ailing joints.
Dr Daniel Kelly leads the work in Trinity College Dublin's Centre for Bio-engineering. He is also the 2008 recipient of the President of Ireland Young Researcher Award, announced last month at Aras an Uachtaráin, funded by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) and worth almost €1 million.
Kelly is already a principal investigator at the centre, with previous funding awards from SFI, Enterprise Ireland, and the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology's Embark programme.
He currently heads a team of seven, with an ambitious research goal being no less than the repair of cartilage in joints caused by injury or diseases such as arthritis. This research direction arose during Kelly's PhD programme at Trinity, where he studied natural "osteochondral defect repair".
This is a highly complex study, but one that holds particular promise, Kelly suggests. If treatments can indeed be produced they will most likely initially be used to repair damage caused by sports injuries. In time, however, they might prove useful in renewing joints damaged by arthritis. The Irish Times. July 10. CLICK TO READ MORE.....
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