Pitt Orthopaedic Research
The Research Division of Pitt Orthopaedic Surgery has been awarded numerous research grants including many from the National Institutes of Health. Over 30 scientists and 100 lab employees work in 14 diversified and comprehensive laboratories dedicated to outcomes, molecular therapeutics, cancer, orthopaedic engineering, biodynamics, cartilage restoration, growth and development, knee biomechanics, mechanobiology, concussion, cellular and molecular engineering, and spine, stem cell, and neuromuscular research. Dr. Fu’s major research interests lie in clinical outcomes following sports-related injuries, as well as orthopaedic bioengineering. He has pioneered numerous innovative arthroscopic surgical techniques to treat injuries to the knee and shoulder and has performed extensive knee joint research in biomechanics, in vivo kinematics, comparative anatomy, and stem cell and regenerative medicine involving the knee. These efforts have led to the publication of 471 peer reviewed articles, 116 book chapters, and 29 major orthopaedic textbooks on the management of sports injuries (as of 10/18/2012). Dr. Fu also has a total of 9 videos that are featured on the website VuMedi, which is the website equivalent a of “YouTube” for surgeons. His VuMedi series of anatomic ACLACL reconstruction videos have have been viewed a total of 474,678 times with 571 comments (as of 10/18/2012).
In 1996, Dr. Fu received the prestigious Kappa Delta Award for his shoulder research. The Kappa Delta Award is fondly referred to as the “Nobel Prize of orthopaedic research” and considered by the AAOS to be the highest recognition of excellence and promise in orthopaedic research. Over the course of his 30-year career Dr. Fu has received more than 195 honors and awards.
His team currently has more than 100 studies completed or underway to evaluate the merits of the anatomic approach by viewing the knee as an organ. He also has ongoing collaborations with K. Christopher Beard, Ph.D., a vertebrate paleontologist, and other curators at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and veterinarians at the Pittsburgh Zoo. Additionally Dr. Fu is working closely with C. Owen Lovejoy, Ph.D., an anthropologist at Kent State University, who reconstructed the skeleton of “Lucy”, the nearly complete fossil of a human ancestor that walked upright more than three million years ago. Such collaborations allow for detailed study of evolution and bony and soft tissue anatomy of the knee.
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