Hamad Alsaykhan, PhD student in the Paxton Lab, successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled ‘Design, development, and assessment of novel 3-dimensional co-culture systems to model musculoskeletal interfaces’ on the 30th August 2019. Image Left to right: Professor Tom Gillingwater, Dr Jennifer Paxton, Hamad Alsaykhan and Dr Jan Vorstius. Hamad worked to develop two new 3D in vitro models to study the bone-tendon interface in the laboratory. This work will form the basis of many future studies that will examine the factors important for bone-tendon development and healing and improve orthopaedic repairs in patients. Many thanks to Dr Jan Vorstius (Dundee) and Professor Tom Gillingwater for examining. This article was published on Tuesday 10 September 2019
