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A member of the OsKoR research team, Rebecca Davies, has recently returned from Hanoi, Vietnam where she acted as a consultant for the Vinmec Healthcare System. Here, our knowledge of mesenchymal stromal cell extracellular vesicles (MSC EVs) was used to assist the Vinmec team on enrichment and characterisation of their GMP grade MSC EVs for future use in animal studies and clinical trials.

On Saturday the 10th of September 2022, our research team participated to the annual Snowpaedic challenge, a sponsored walk organized by the Orthopaedic Institute Charity to support research and education at the RJAH Orthopaedic Hospital.

In May, Dr Oksana Kehoe and Becky Davies (3rd Year PhD student) attended the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles Annual Meeting (ISEV2022) at the Centre des Congrès of Lyon, France.

On the 29th of April was held the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences 2022 PGR Symposium at Keele University. PhD students from faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences gathered to share their project in the form of 3 minutes presentation (3-minute thesis), 10 minutes presentation and poster presentation.

On the 7th and 8th of June 2022 the 12th Oswestry/Keele Cartilage Symposium was held at Keele Hall, organised by Dr Helen McCarthy, Dr Karina Wright, Prof Martyn Snow, Prof Sally Roberts, and Mr Paul Jermin.

In April 2022, surgeons and researchers of the RJAH Orthopaedic Hospital gathered to share their latest developments in term of surgery, treatments and research for the 23rd Research Day. The day began with a Q&A session led by Mr Andrew Roberts, Director of Research and Ms Stacy Keegan, Acting Chief Executive.

In April, 11 members of RJAH Orthopaedic hospital, inclusive of surgeons and researchers, attended the ICRS world congress conference in the bustling city of Berlin, Germany. The meeting offered an opportunity to listen to thought provoking talks varying from surgery techniques, current and emerging cell therapies, to industry talks and application of products.

Dr Jade Perry (Post doctorate researcher), Rebecca Davies and Emily Storey (3rd Year PhD students) of the Oswestry and Keele Orthopaedic Research group (RJAH Orthopaedic Hospital) recently visited the Marches School in Oswestry.