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Nidhi Bhutani

Nidhi Bhutani

Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Stanford

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Millions of people suffer from joint pain and swelling as they age. It is a huge unmet medical need. Until now, there has been no drug that directly treats the cause of cartilage loss. But this gerozyme inhibitor causes a dramatic regeneration of cartilage beyond that reported in response to any other drug or intervention.

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Stanford's Gerozyme breakthrough: regrowing cartilage without stem cells

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Co-senior author on breakthrough study

Since 1743, when surgeon William Hunter declared that damaged cartilage 'is never recovered,' medicine has accepted this as biological fact. Nearly 300 years later, Stanford researchers have demonstrated something different: an injectable drug that blocks a single protein can regrow cartilage in aging miceβ€”and in human tissue samples taken from knee replacement patients.

Updated Feb 17