Bone Center

Statins and Effects on Bone

Current research interests in our laboratory include drug discovery for osteoporosis, fracture repair and other diseases.

In the last few years we have been very interested in the statins and their effects in bone.


Three point bending test of a rat femur with a fracture callus.	The resulting force-deflection curve from a three point bend test provides the biomechanical properties of bone

Projects:

Personnel:

Gregory Mundy: Director of the Center for Bone Biology
Jeffry Nyman: Instructor: Biomechanical testing and uCT analysis
Jianghong Zhang: Staff Scientist: Histology processing
Satyawan Jadhav: Postdoctoral fellow: Biodistribution of statins, mechanism of action
Rebecca Parker: Research Assistant: Animal care

The VUMC Center for Bone Biology is a member of the VUMC Department of Medicine in the Division of Clinical Pharmacology.

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