Graduate School of health and Medical Sciences

Musculoskeletal tissue regeneration – mechanisms and clinical perspectives
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3278-26-00-00	There are 20 available seats
	Enrollment deadline: 30/06/2026

Date and time	05.10.2026, at: 08:00 - 07.10.2026, at: 16:00
Regular seats	20
Course fee	6,600.00 kr.
Lecturers	Abigail Mackey
ECTS credits	2.40

Contact person	Charlotte Bilde E-mail address: charlotte.bilde.02@regionh.dk

Enrolment Handling/Course Organiser	PhD administration SUND E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Aim and content This course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School), and for PhD Students from NorDoc member faculties. All other participants must pay the course fee. Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student at a Danish university, you will be placed on the waiting list until enrollment deadline. This also applies to PhD students from NorDoc member faculties. After the enrollment deadline, available seats will be allocated to applicants on the waiting list. Learning objectives A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to: 1. Understand the cellular and molecular basis of musculoskeletal tissue repair throughout the lifespan 2. Appreciate the current clinical challenges relating to failed tissue repair 3. Design a sound scientific study to address these challenges 4. Justify and defend the study design 5. Evaluate the merit of published articles in this field by acquiring an appreciation of the strengths and limitations of the design and analysis methods employed Content The basic principles of musculoskeletal tissue regeneration will be covered, with a translational link to clinical challenges. We will focus on skeletal muscle and tendon, and their attachment sites to the skeleton. Course teachers are internationally recognised leading experts in their field, for example: • Potential and limitations of soft tissue repair and regeneration • Determinants of stem cell fates and states • Tendon-bone and tendon-muscle junctions • Immune cells and inflammation in tissue regeneration • Dynamics of human soft tissue turnover • Circadian rhythm in musculoskeletal soft tissues Participants PhD students or pre-PhD students working in the field of musculoskeletal tissue regeneration from a basic science or clinical perspective. This course is especially suited for students with backgrounds in for example molecular biomedicine, sports science, biology, veterinary science, and medicine. Relevance to graduate programmes The course is relevant to PhD students from the following graduate programmes at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH: Basic and Clinical Research in Musculoskeletal Sciences Veterinary and Animal Health Sciences Molecular Mechanisms of Disease Language English Form Lectures, group work, student presentations and group discussions. In addition, students are expected to read specified literature before attending the course. Course director Abigail Mackey, Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Bispebjerg Hospital, abigailmac@sund.ku.dk Teachers World-leading clinical and basic scientists in the field of muscle and tendon injury and repair. For example: Arvind von Keudell, Director of Geriatric Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery and Research, Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School, and Bispebjerg Hospital Foteini Mourkioti, Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Penn Institute of Regenerative Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Jennifer Paxton, Senior Lecturer in Anatomy, University of Edinburgh Jérôme Feige, Musculoskeletal Department head and Deputy Head Nestle Institute of Health Sciences, Lausanne Bénédicte Chazaud, Director of research, Institut NeuroMyoGène, University of Lyon Grith Højfeldt, Postdoc, Institute of Sports Medicine Copenhagen, Bispebjerg Hospital Chloé Yeung, Senior Researcher, Institute of Sports Medicine Copenhagen, Bispebjerg Hospital Dates 5-7 October 2026 Course location Bispebjerg Hospital, Nielsine Nielsens Vej 11, Copenhagen 2400, Denmark Registration Please register before 30 June 2026 Expected frequency Week 41, every second year Seats to PhD students from other Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the applicable rules. Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrolment. Note: All applicants are asked to submit invoice details in case of no-show, late cancellation or obligation to pay the course fee (typically non-PhD students). If you are a PhD student, your participation in the course must be in agreement with your principal supervisor.

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