Farshid Guilak, PhD

Mildred B. Simon Research Professor of Orthopedic Surgery

Washington University in St. Louis (WU)

Research primarily focuses on the regenerative medicine approaches to treat osteoarthritis, a painful and debilitating disease of the joints. His laboratory has used a multidisciplinary approach to investigate the role of biomechanical factors in the onset and progression of osteoarthritis, as a basis for the development of new pharmacologic and stem-cell therapies.