We are delighted to invite you to our upcoming Musculoskeletal Diseases Research Community Seminar Series, which will take place on Wednesday, September 3, 2025 from 15:00-16:00 in the Melania building, seminar room ME101 and online.
We are honored to host a special guest speaker, Distinguished Professor Yang Xia from Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, USA.
He will deliver an exciting lecture titled: "In early detection of osteoarthritis, why aren't we there yet?"
Bio
Yang Xia completed his MSc (1989) and PhD (1992) dissertation research under the guidance of Paul T Callaghan at the Physics and Biophysics Department of Massey University (New Zealand). The topics of his dissertations were the physics of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and the quantitative MRI of polymer dynamics and plant vascular flows at microscopic resolutions. His first experiment on flow and diffusion was published together with the first introduction of q-space concept in MRI in 1988. After a two-year postdoctoral research at Cornell University, Yang joined the Physics Faculty at Oakland University in 1994 and now holds the rank of Distinguished Professor.
Professor Xia's major research effort is on the study of osteoarthritic degradation in articular cartilage using multidisciplinary microscopic imaging techniques (microscopic MRI, polarized light microscopy, Fourier-transform infrared microscopy, microscopic computer tomography, biomechanical imaging). His research at Oakland University has been funded continuously by a number of R01 grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) since 1999. Professor Xia is the lead editor for a 2016 book titled "Biophysics and Biochemistry of Cartilage by NMR and MRI" (the Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK). In 2022, Professor Xia published a textbook titled "Essential Concepts in MRI: Physics, Instrumentation, Spectroscopy and Imaging" (Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken, NJ). More information on his research and publication can be found from http://www.oakland.edu/~xia.
You are welcome to share this seminar information with anyone who may be interested. We hope you will join us for an engaging seminar!
For more information, please contact Research Community Coordinator Cristina Florea, email [email protected].