Alert: Canvas Outage Update
Canvas access has been restored for our users, but the service reliability remains uncertain. Due to recent events, Canvas has had intermittent outages which are at the discretion of the vendor and may occur during a final exam. Faculty and staff may continue to use Canvas, but we strongly advise faculty and students to prepare a contingency plan for turning in assignments and final exams in the event Canvas access becomes unavailable again.
Instructure, the company that owns Canvas, has provided an FAQ about the incident, which may not answer all your questions. We will share more information if it becomes available.
Instructure, the company that owns Canvas, has provided an FAQ about the incident, which may not answer all your questions. We will share more information if it becomes available.
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Department of Orthopedics
School of Medicine
Welcome to Payne Lab
Lab Director, Karin A. Payne, PhD
Latest News
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Scientists Share Novel Research Approaches to Chronic Disease Causes and Treatments
Sep 3, 2025At 8:30 a.m., 125 or so researchers crowded into the CSU Spur. Some were toting their posters. Some were clutching their coffee and laptops. They settled in to learn about the links between plastic exposure and chronic disease risk; they heard about a novel cancer treatment tested in both golden retrievers and humans; and they listened to researchers discuss advances in cartilage regeneration. What connected these wide-ranging topics? It was the CCTSI’s CU-CSU Summit conference on chronic disease research.Full story -
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Orthopaedic Research Society ORS Annual Meeting-2025
Feb 1, 2025Dr. Pochih Shen, research fellow in the group, presented his study titled “3D-Printed Growth Plate Mimetic Composite Mitigates Early Growth Deformities in a Rabbit Model.” His talk was followed by Dr. Ana Ferreira Ruble, who shared her latest work on “Optimization of a 3D-Printed Growth Plate Mimetic Composite for the Treatment of Growth Plate Injuries.”Full story -
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Multi-Campus Effort Aims to Regenerate Arthritic Joints
Apr 19, 2024Osteoarthritis, a painful degenerative disease that affects 32.5 million Americans, slowly degrades buffering cartilage until joints grind together bone-on-bone. With no existing effective regenerative therapy, treatments are limited to anti-inflammatory injections and, ultimately, expensive joint replacement surgery.Full story -
Joints That Could Heal Themselves-Researchers Could Get There in Five Years
Mar 26, 2024Imagine a day when joints could heal themselves. At the first inkling of a creaky knee, patients could get a single shot in the joint that would not only stop their cartilage and bone from eroding, but kick-start its regrowth. In more advanced cases, that shot might also deliver a biomaterial repair kit to patch holes in tissue. If multiple joints ached, an annual IV infusion could ferry regenerating therapies to all of them at once.Full story