Leadership Team
Special advisor to the President and Chancellor at Colorado State University
Professor, Small Animal Internal Medicine; Director, Center for Immune and Regenerative Medicine
Professor, Small Animal Internal Medicine; Director, Companion Animal Studies
Associate Director, Orthopaedic Bioengineering Research Laboratory; Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Associate Director of Veterinary Continuing Education at the Translational Medicine Institute; Professor of Orthopedic Surgery
Department Head and Professor, Mechanical Engineering; Director, Orthopaedic Bioengineering Research Laboratory; Professor, Department of Clinical Sciences; Professor, School of Advanced Materials Discovery;
Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering
Executive Advisory Board
Special advisor to the President and Chancellor at Colorado State University
Chancellor of the Colorado State University System; Former President of Colorado State University, 2008-2015
Chairman of Liberty Media, Liberty Global, and Qurate Retail Group
Founder, Colorado State University's Orthopaedic Research Center; Emeritus Professor
Founding member of the Steadman Hawkins Clinic-Denver
Founder of CSSi LifeSciences™; Founder of ProED
Scientific Advisory Board
Dr. Bill Christiansen advises pharmaceutical, biotechnology, clean energy and medical device companies, as well as universities, non-profit research institutions and investors, with respect to complex intellectual property matters and market exclusivity strategies.
Dr. Brian Johnstone is a professor of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation in the School of Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University. In 2016, Dr. Johnstone was honored to be inducted in the inaugural class of the International Combined Orthopaedic Research Societies (ICORS) Fellow of International Orthopaedic Research (FIOR). In 2019, he was elected Chair of the ICORS International College of Fellows. Dr. Johnstone received the Marshall R. Urist MD Award at the 2017 Orthopaedic Research Society annual meeting. In 2018, he was inducted into the inaugural class of ORS Fellows with the Orthopaedic Research Society.
Professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Washington University and Director of Research for the Shriners Hospitals for Children - St. Louis Shriners. Co-director of the Washington University Center of Regenerative Medicine and has appointments in the Departments of Developmental Biology and Biomedical Engineering. Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Biomechanics, Associate editor for Osteoarthritis & Cartilage
Director of the Raymond Purves Bone and Joint Research Labs at the Kolling Institute of Medical Research at Royal North Shore Hospital, Australia. Received the 2010 Barry Preston Award from the Matrix Biology Society of Australia and New Zealand. Awarded an Arthritis Foundation of Australia Fellowship
Founder of CSSi LifeSciences™; Founder of ProED, a healthcare services and drug development company, responsible for over 50 successful FDA NDA/BLA and EMA applications and defenses for various drugs, biologics, and diagnostic tests, including over 150 medical devices 510(K) submissions. His academic and medical experience includes Director for the Department of Experimental Therapeutics at the Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center, Associate Professor of Medical-Surgical Nursing at the Case Western Reserve University and Lecturer for Oncology at Cleveland State University
Carla R. Scanzello, MD PhD is Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Rheumatology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. She is also the Associate Director of the VA CReATE Motion Center and Co-Director of the Translational Musculoskeletal Research Center at the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center in Philadelphia, PA. She serves as an Associate Editor for Arthritis and Rheumatology and on the editorial board of Osteoarthritis & Cartilage. Her research aims to understand how the innate immune system contributes to Osteoarthritis (OA) pathology and progression, with the ultimate goal of developing novel therapeutic strategies for this debilitating disease.