Repotage on the biomechanics group's research. Read about how the society can benefit from the research at MAX IV-laboratories in a series of short articles. The first article describes how the laboratory is used for research on osteoporosis.
A large collaborative project with basis at Sahlgrenska in Gothenburg has elucidated the mechanims behind the role of WNT16 in fragility fractures. The article was recently published in Nature Medicine and can be found here.
Alexander Wingård sucessfully defend his Master thesis entitled A multiscale finite element model of a stress fracture. Congratulations!
Congratulations Per Bosemark on your PhD defense! Per defended his thesis "Enhancing bone healing through concurrent anabolic- and anti-catabolic pharmacological treatment" at the Department of Orthopedics, Lund. Supervisors were Magnus Tägil and Hanna Isaksson, and the Opponent was Sune Larsson from Uppsala University.