With a Fulbright scholarship to the USA

Mario Rothbauer from MedUni Vienna's Department of Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery conducted research in the USA on a prestigious Fulbright scholarship. He joined the Hospital for Special Surgery to work on his project "Hoffa-fibrosis-on-a-chip in osteoarthritis". The Fulbright Programme is one of the most esteemed scholarship programmes in the world. It promotes academic exchange to and from the USA. Mario Rothbauer received the prestigious grant to join the Otero lab at the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS), affiliated with Weill Cornell Medicine in New York (USA). There, he combined microfluidic technologies with molecular biology techniques to develop systems for studying fibrosis in osteoarthritis. He conducted his research in the laboratory of Miguel Otero, Associate Scientist in the "Orthopaedic Soft Tissue Research Program" at HSS.