{"id":20356,"date":"2019-01-11T12:05:40","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T17:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/?p=20356"},"modified":"2019-01-11T12:05:40","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T17:05:40","slug":"11-million-nih-grant-creates-new-center-for-musculoskeletal-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/11-million-nih-grant-creates-new-center-for-musculoskeletal-research\/","title":{"rendered":"$11 million NIH grant creates new center for musculoskeletal research"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20358\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clemson.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Hai-Yao-w-skeleton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20358\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20358\" src=\"https:\/\/clemson.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Hai-Yao-w-skeleton-300x182.jpg\" alt=\"Hai Yao, the Ernest R. Norville Endowed Chair of bioengineering at Clemson University and leader of SC-TRIMH, talks with a student in his lab at MUSC. Image Credit: Grace Beahm\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/Hai-Yao-w-skeleton-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/Hai-Yao-w-skeleton-768x467.jpg 768w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/Hai-Yao-w-skeleton-1030x626.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/Hai-Yao-w-skeleton-1500x911.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/Hai-Yao-w-skeleton-705x428.jpg 705w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/Hai-Yao-w-skeleton.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20358\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hai Yao, the Ernest R. Norville Endowed Chair of bioengineering at Clemson University and leader of SC-TRIMH, talks with a student in his lab at MUSC.<br \/>Image Credit: Grace Beahm<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Disorders affecting bones and joints \u2014 including arthritis, osteoporosis and chronic back pain \u2014 are a major driver of health care costs around the world. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that by 2040, more than one-quarter of Americans will be diagnosed with arthritis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Clemson is looking to address that problem. With an $11 million grant from the National Institutes of Health\u2019s Center for Biomedical Research Excellence, the University has launched a new research center that will bring together scientists from across South Carolina to change the way musculoskeletal disorders are diagnosed, treated and studied.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Led by bioengineers at Clemson, the South Carolina Center for Translational Research Improving Musculoskeletal Health combines orthopedics and other clinical expertise from the Greenville Health System and the Medical University of South Carolina with computer scientists, computational engineers, biophysicists and other experts to better understand musculoskeletal disorders and to design and evaluate new devices, interventions and drug therapies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disorders affecting bones and joints \u2014 including arthritis, osteoporosis and chronic back pain \u2014 are a major driver of health care costs around the world. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that by 2040, more than one-quarter of Americans will be diagnosed with arthritis. Clemson is looking to address that problem. 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