{"id":2597,"date":"2026-02-28T07:06:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T11:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/kumarlab\/?p=2597"},"modified":"2026-03-25T07:23:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T11:23:17","slug":"we-were-at-the-harvard-oasis-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/kumarlab\/2026\/02\/28\/we-were-at-the-harvard-oasis-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"We were at the Harvard OASIS symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our lab was well represented at the Harvard Aging Initiative\u00a0Osteoarthritis Surgical Innovation and Science (OASIS) Symposium on February 28.\u00a0OASIS \u200baimed <\/span>to galvanize discussion, research, and innovation toward osteoarthritis, cartilage degeneration, and associated diseases. Our students presented posters on their work. Speakers included:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Osteoarthritis Pathology, Imaging and Clinical Treatment:\u00a0<\/span>Dr. Brian Snyder\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>(Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School, Sports Medicine Orthopedic Surgeon at Boston Children\u2019s Hospital).<\/li>\n
  2. \u200bThe Future of Clinical Innovation in Osteoarthritis:\u00a0<\/span>Dr. Ali Guermazi\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>(Professor of Radiology and Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine).\u00a0<\/span>Dr. Christian Latermann<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>(Department Chief of Sports Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School)<\/li>\n
  3. \u200bThe Genetics and Epigenetics of Osteoarthritis:\u00a0<\/span>Dr. Michelle Yau<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>(Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Assistant Scientist at Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research)<\/li>\n
  4. \u200bTissue Engineering in Osteoarthritis:\u00a0<\/span>Dr. Sarah Jachim<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>(Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Craft Lab at Boston Children\u2019s Hospital)<\/li>\n
  5. \u200bDrug Development in Osteoarthritis:\u00a0<\/span>Dr. Ronnen Rubenoff<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>(Former VP, Global Head, Translational Medicine Discovery and Profiling at Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research).\u00a0<\/span>Greg Erman, MBA (<\/strong>CEO of Longevity Biotech NewCo. Previous CEO of EmpiraMed)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Our lab was well represented at the Harvard Aging Initiative\u00a0Osteoarthritis Surgical Innovation and Science (OASIS) Symposium on February 28.\u00a0OASIS \u200baimed to galvanize discussion, research, and innovation toward osteoarthritis, cartilage degeneration, and associated diseases. Our students presented posters on their work. Speakers included: Osteoarthritis Pathology, Imaging and Clinical Treatment:\u00a0Dr. Brian Snyder\u00a0(Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Harvard […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13258,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/kumarlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/kumarlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/kumarlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/kumarlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13258"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/kumarlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2597"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/kumarlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2605,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/kumarlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions\/2605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/kumarlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/kumarlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/kumarlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}