ORTHOPAEDIC BIOENGINEERING LABORATORY

Dr. Yongren Wu is an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at Clemson University with an adjunct appointment in the Department of Orthopaedic and Physical Medicine at Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). He earned his Ph.D. in Bioengineering at Clemson University in 2013 then joined Dr. Vincent D. Pellegrini, Jr.’s lab at MUSC as a postdoctoral scholar. He became an instructor (2015) and an assistant professor (2019) in the Department of Orthopaedics and Physical Medicine at MUSC. He started as a faculty at Clemson in August of 2019. Integrating theoretical modeling, in vitro tissue and cell studies, and in vivo animal models, his lab pursues a multi-scale, systems-level understanding of mechano-adaption mechanisms in the soft tissue and bone interface for better diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of musculoskeletal disease. Dr. Wu’s lab has been funded by multiple agencies including NIH (NIGMS), NIH SBIR, SC INBRE, Cervical Spine Research Society (CSRS), and Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation (MTF). Dr. Wu is also serving as a director in Charleston campus for the Clemson Biomedical Engineering Master of Engineering Program which emphasizes clinical translation and biomedical engineering design innovation.