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Luke Receives the Dean’s Prize in Yearlong Research!

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The Dean’s Prize in Research and & Scholarship Committee at UCSF has awarded Luke Sang with the 2026 Dean’s Prize in Yearlong Research.

Aboubacar Is Going to Harvard!

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Aboubacar Wague has been accepted into the Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Residency Program (

MDA Conference 2026

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Hiroyori Fusugawa and Alex Youn have traveled to Orlando, Florida to present their research at the 

MITO Lab Is Going to ORS 2026

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The MITO lab will attend the

Dr. Xuhui Liu Featured on the NCIRE DNA Newsletter

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MITO Lab Celebrates its 15th Anniversary

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15 years ago,

Dr. Feeley Named the Executive Vice Chair of Orthopaedics

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We at the Feeley-Liu lab are proud to announce that Dr. Brian Feeley has been named the Executive Vice Chair of the UCSF Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. In this role, Dr.

A Successful ORS

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At the 2025 Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS) conference in Phoenix, AZ, the Feeley-Liu lab members led engaging panel discussions and learned valuable information from other talks and presenters. This has been one of our most successful ORS, with fifteen abstracts, five presentations, and…

University of Florida Muscle Conference

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The University of Florida has invited Cristhian Montenegro to present at their muscle conference in March 2025. This conference aims to advance the field of skeletal muscle biology by promoting new ideas and collaborations. Cristhian will present his abstract “The role of fibroadipogenic progenitor…

We are going to ORS 2025!

By Yusef Samimi on
The MITO lab will attend the Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS) 2025 Conference in Arizona in February. We are proud to announce that many of our members will be presenting their abstracts and hosting podium presentations. Here is a list of abstracts to be presented: