Farshid Guilak

Lazlo Ormandy Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Appointments and Affiliations

Borelli Award. American Society of Biomechanics. 2010
Fellows. American Society of Mechanical Engineers. 2007
Marshall R. Urist Award. Orthopaedic Research Society. 2006
Fellows. American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. 2005
Y.C. Fung Young Investigator Award. American Society of Mechanical Engineers. 2000
New Investigator Recognition Award Winners. Orthopaedic Research Society. 1994

These new painkillers could replace opioids (Jun 1, 2016 | The Daily Beast)
How Cartilage Cells Sense Forceful Injury (Nov 10, 2014)
New biomaterial mimics functionality of natural cartilage (Aug 1, 2014 | LiveScience)
Duke researchers find diet – not just obesity – linked to osteoarthritis in mice (Jul 14, 2014 | The News & Observer)
Omega 3 Fatty Acids Lessen Severity of Osteoarthritis in Mice (Jul 11, 2014)
Turn your body into a cartilage factory (Feb 21, 2014 | Wired)
Gene Therapy Might Grow Replacement Tissue Inside the Body (Feb 19, 2014)
Duke professor awarded $500K for osteoarthritis research (Jan 23, 2014 | WRAL TechWire)
Chemical Signaling Simulates Exercise in Cartilage Cells (Jan 14, 2014)
Duke Engineers Make Strides Toward Artificial Cartilage (Dec 13, 2013)

Adkar, SS; Brunger, JM; Willard, VP; Wu, C-L; Gersbach, CA; Guilak, F, Genome Engineering for Personalized Arthritis Therapeutics., Trends in Molecular Medicine, vol 23 no. 10 (2017), pp. 917-931 [10.1016/j.molmed.2017.08.002] [abs].
Furman, BD; Kent, CL; Huebner, JL; Kraus, VB; McNulty, AL; Guilak, F; Olson, SA, CXCL10 is upregulated in synovium and cartilage following articular fracture., Journal of Orthopaedic Research (2017) [10.1002/jor.23735] [abs].
Wu, C-L; McNeill, J; Goon, K; Little, D; Kimmerling, K; Huebner, J; Kraus, V; Guilak, F, Conditional Macrophage Depletion Increases Inflammation and Does Not Inhibit the Development of Osteoarthritis in Obese Macrophage Fas-Induced Apoptosis-Transgenic Mice., Arthritis and Rheumatology, vol 69 no. 9 (2017), pp. 1772-1783 [10.1002/art.40161] [abs].
Farhang, N; Brunger, JM; Stover, JD; Thakore, PI; Lawrence, B; Guilak, F; Gersbach, CA; Setton, LA; Bowles, RD, * CRISPR-Based Epigenome Editing of Cytokine Receptors for the Promotion of Cell Survival and Tissue Deposition in Inflammatory Environments., Tissue Engineering, Part A, vol 23 no. 15-16 (2017), pp. 738-749 [10.1089/ten.tea.2016.0441] [abs].
Bridgen, DT; Fearing, BV; Jing, L; Sanchez-Adams, J; Cohan, MC; Guilak, F; Chen, J; Setton, LA, Regulation of human nucleus pulposus cells by peptide-coupled substrates., Acta Biomaterialia, vol 55 (2017), pp. 100-108 [10.1016/j.actbio.2017.04.019] [abs].