Announcing the 2023 agility project awardees
We are delighted to announce and congratulate the recipients of the Wu Tsai Human Performance Agility Project awards. Five outstanding projects from universities around the world were identified by the National Leadership Council as having a strong potential to advance our understanding of the biological principles underlying human performance and expand the Alliance’s current scientific program.
Influence of Sex and Hormone Signaling on Recovery from Exercise
Brianne Connizzo | Boston University
Exploiting Transcriptomic Discovery of Meniscus Cells to Predict Outcome of Avascular Meniscus Repair
Adetola Adesida | University of Alberta
Expansion of the Musculoskeletal Atlas Project to Rodent Data (RodeMAP) and High Resolution Human Tendon Imaging
Thor Besier, Geoffrey Handsfield | University of Auckland
Enhancing Muscle Function by Mitochondrial Transplantation
Tom Rando | UCLA
Disturbed Diurnal Homeostasis in Development of Tendon Overuse Injury (Tendinopathy) and Temporal Optimization of Physical Therapy to Improve Performance
Michael Kjaer | University of Copenhagen
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