Ronald D. Graff, PhD

Research Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics

Education

BS: University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
PhD (combined program in toxicology): Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

Honors, Awards, and Recognitions

Research Interests

Our lab studies cartilage biology and osteoarthritis with chondron cultures. A chondron is a chondrocyte with its surrounding pericellular matrix. Chondrons were first isolated from articular cartilage by Tony Poole using homogenization (mechanically isolated chondrons) see references below. In our lab, chondrons are isolated using the enzymes, dispase and collagenase (enzymatically isolated) see references below. Chondrons produce more extracellular matrix than chondrocytes isolated without their pericellular matrix.

Academic Appointments

1992-1995	Research Assistant; Neurotoxicology Laboratories, School of Pharmacy, Rutgers University
1995-1998	Postdoctoral Fellow; Department of Biochemistry, UNC School of Medicine
1998-2003	Postdoctoral Fellow; Thurston Arthritis Research Center (TARC), UNC School of Medicine
2003-present	Research Assistant Professor; TARC and Department of Orthopaedics (joint appointment), UNC School of Medicine

Selected Publications

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