John Kisiday, PhD

Dr. John Kisiday is an Assistant Professor in Clinical Sciences in a research and teaching appointment at the Orthopaedic Research Center in January 2005, after doing his PhD at MIT in Bioengineering and a collaborative post-docctorate with CSU and MIT. His doctorate work primarily focused on mechanobiology, the study of the impact of physical deformation on cells, and the use of a novel peptide-based material (discovered at MIT in the early 1990's), as a three-dimensional scaffold for cartilage tissue repair. Dr. Kisiday's post-doctorate work explored chondrogenesis of equine stem cells for potential applications to equine and human therapies. The research Dr. Kisiday will focus on at the ORC will involve cartilage tissue engineering therapies an dmechanobiology in order to build the bridge between basic laboratory studies and beneficial animal models.