The clinical and basic sciences faculty are headed by Drs. Goldberg and Moskowitz and by Dr. Caplan respectively, who represent the Executive Committee of the Center. The Executive Committee functions as the Co-Directors of the Center, with shared responsibility for the Center activities. They assist with the day-to-day management of the Center, generating policy and the long-term objectives.

For more details of the faculty member’s interests, see the synopses or click on their name to view their curriculum vitæ (CV) or website. Off-site links will open in a new window.

Eben Alsberg, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Interests: Tissue engineering, stem cell differentiation.
Email: exa46@cwru.edu

James Anderson, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Departments of Pathology, Macromolecular Science & Biomedical Engineering
Interests: Retrieval & evaluation of human implants.
Email: james.anderson@cwru.edu

Harihara Baskaran, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Interests: Microvascular tissue engineering, cell transport.
Email: hxb3@cwru.edu

John Blackwell, Ph.D.
Leonard Case Jr. Professor
Department of Macromolecular Science
Interests: Physical-chemical measurements of solution properties of complex polysaccharides.
Email: jxb6@cwru.edu

Hülya Bükülmez, M.D.
Instructor of Pediatrics, MetroHealth Medical Center
Interests: Juvenile rheumatic diseases, cartilage genetics and biology
Email: hxb38@cwru.edu

Anthony Calabro, Ph.D.
Staff Scientist
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Lerner Research Institute
Interests: Structure, function, and metabolism of hyaluronan and aggrecan in normal, malignant, and arthritic tissues.
Email: calabra@ccf.org

Arnold I. Caplan, Ph.D.
Director, Skeletal Research Center
Department of Biology
Interests: Tissue engineering of mesenchymal tissue, skeletal tissue biology, extracellular matrix; and the aging of the skin.
Email: aic@cwru.edu

Dwight T. Davy, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Interests: Evaluation of the mechanical properties of hard tissue.
Email: dtd@cwru.edu

Stanton Gerson, M.D.
Professor
Department of Hematology/Oncology
Interests: Stem cell gene transfer, drug selection, transdifferentiation.
Email: slg5@cwru.edu

Edward Greenfield, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Orthopædics
Interests: cellular mechanisms that regulate bone turnover in response to stimuli, e.g., hormones, cytokines, orthopædic wear particles, and bacterial endotoxin.
Email: emg3@cwru.edu

Vincent C. Hascall, M.D.
Professor & Section Head
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Lerner Research Institute
Interests: Connective tissue biology.
Email: hascalv@ccf.org

Stephen Haynesworth, Ph.D.
Associate Professor & Associate Dean
Department of Biology
Interests: Developmental & ageing biology
Email: seh5@cwru.edu

Arthur Heuer, Ph.D.
Professor & Director
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Interests: Paraequilibrium carburization of stainless steels, oxidation-induced stresses in Ni-base alloys.
Email: ahh@cwru.edu

Alexander M. Jamieson, Ph.D.
Professor & Chairman
Department of Macromolecular Science
Interests: Use of laser light scattering techniques to analyze the solution properties of proteoglycans.
Email: amj@cwru.edu

Joseph M. Mansour, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Interests: Mechanical behavior of cartilaginous tissues in normal, diseased & repaired states.
Email: jmm12@cwru.edu

Ronald Midura, Ph.D.
Department Chair
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Lerner Research Institute
Interests: Connective tissue biology.
Email: midurar@ccf.org

George Muschler, M.D.
Staff
Department of Orthopædics, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Lerner Research Institute
Interests: Bone tissue engineering, osteoblastic differentiation, age, gender, and disease related changes in connective tissue progenitors.
Email: muschlg@ccf.org

Horst von Recum, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Interests: Cell delivery, drug delivery
Email: hav1@cwru.edu

Rodrigo Somoza Palacios, Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate
Skeletal Research Center
Email: ras286@cwru.edu

J. Michael Sorrell, Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate & Director, Monoclonal Antibody Facility
Skeletal Research Center
Interests: Dermal fibroblast biology, control of angiogenesis
Email: jms30@cwru.edu

Jean F. Welter, M.D., M.Sc., Ph.D.
Research Associate Professor & Director, Bioreactor Core Facility
Skeletal Research Center; Department of Biology
Interests: Tissue-engineering and cell-based therapies, bioreactor design, mechanobiology, bone transplantation, imaging, fluorescence spectroscopy, drug delivery.
Email: jfw2@cwru.edu