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Anatomy PhD Viva Success

Hamad Alsaykhan, PhD student in the Paxton Lab, successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled ‘Design, development, and assessment of novel 3-dimensional co-culture systems to model musculoskeletal interfaces’ on the 30th August 2019.

Anatomy PhD Viva Success for Hamad Alsaykhan
Left to right: Professor Tom Gillingwater, Dr Jennifer Paxton, Hamad Alsaykhan and Dr Jan Vorstius.

Hamad worked to develop two new 3D in vitro models to study the bone-tendon interface in the laboratory. This work will form the basis of many future studies that will examine the factors important for bone-tendon development and healing and improve orthopaedic repairs in patients.

Many thanks to Dr Jan Vorstius (Dundee) and Professor Tom Gillingwater for examining.

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