Nathaniel A. Dyment, PhD, Presented With 2024 Kappa Delta Young Investigator Award for Research on Formation, Maintenance and Repair of Tendons and Ligaments
The award recognizes outstanding clinical research related to musculoskeletal disease or injury by investigators under 40 years old.
- The award recognizes outstanding clinical research related to musculoskeletal disease or injury by investigators under 40 years old.
- Unfortunately, clinicians and researchers lack biological benchmarks to assess the repairs of these tissues, hampering the development of new therapies.
- "Therefore, the development of treatments to successfully repair or regenerate tendons is very difficult.
- The degeneration that is happening in tendons can take decades to develop, making successful treatment of these injuries a big challenge.