Welcome to the Center for Musculoskeletal Research
The Center for Musculoskeletal Research (CMSR) is comprised of highly integrated faculty and trainees from a variety of departments, including Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Biomedical Engineering, and Medicine (Allergy/Immunology and Rheumatology, Endocrinology), Biomedical Genetics, Biochemistry and Biophysics, Environmental Medicine, UR CTSI, Pharmacology and Physiology, Microbiology and Immunology, and Pediatrics.
Principal investigators from these various departments share research space and facilities that support over 100 scientists with shared research interests while working in a programmatic manner to address the most challenging questions in the musculoskeletal sciences.
CMSR Inclusion Statement
At the Center for Musculoskeletal Research, we as a community continually strive to create an inclusive and safe environment for all people. We welcome diversity and believe that different life experiences provide different approaches to problem-solving, thus, enhancing our collective ingenuity in science and medicine. By embracing our individualities, we foster effective communication, collaboration, and accountability among all members. We are proud of our diverse and intersecting identities which include, but are not limited to race, ethnicity, nationality, gender-identity, sexual orientation, age, ability, religion, culture and education. We are accountable to the inclusion of diverse membership which enables us to share our research worldwide as we endeavor to make the world ever better through increased understanding of musculoskeletal science, engineering, disease, and public health.
CMSR by the Numbers
$22M
in Grant Funding
FY2019-2020
126
Pre- and Post-doctoral Trainees
253
Peer Reviewed Papers in 2020
77
Established and Early Career Investigators
What Sets Us Apart