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LMP 1211H Foundations in Musculoskeletal Science

For students enrolled in the Collaborative Specialization in Musculoskeletal Sciences (CSMS).

A half-credit required course which will be counted, in most of the participating home programs or graduate units, towards your home degree electives.  

Format

  • Offered over one term
  • 12 two-hour lectures

Lectures will cover topics spanning over Bones, Cartilage, and Muscles.

You will, regardless of your home graduate unit and prior learning, receive a common foundation of the topics and issues particularly relevant to designing and conducting research in the highly interdisciplinary realm of musculoskeletal science. You will achieve an enhanced appreciation of the breadth and complexities of research in the field and will be better able to discuss disparate topic areas of research, thereby, reinforcing a spirit of interdisciplinary research. 

Lecturers are experts in their respective topics drawn from graduate units and clinical departments associated with the Collaborative Program in Musculoskeletal Science.

Fall 2024 schedule for LMP 1211H Foundations in Musculoskeletal Science

Thursdays, 3 - 5 pm

Medical Sciences Building, room MS 3278

Date and time Topic Speaker(s)

September 11, 2025

Introductions to LMP 1211H 

Lecture: How to apply for graduate fellowship (Dr. Hinz)

Wilder Scott

Boris Hinz

boris.hinz@utoronto.ca

September 18, 2025

Mesenchymal stromal cells in tissue regeneration and repair

Wilder Scott

September 25, 2025

Fibrosis, inflammation and regeneration

Matthew Buechler

matthew.buechler@utoronto.ca

October 2, 2025

Cartilage and tissue engineering

Rita Kandel

October 9, 2025

Cartilage electromechanics and osteoarthritis

Adele Changoor

October 16, 2025

Animal models in musculoskeletal research

Margarete Akens

margarete.akens@rmp.uhn.ca

October 23, 2025

Muscle stem cells

Penney Gilbert

penney.gilbert@utoronto.ca

November 6, 2025

Mechanisms of joint destruction during osteoarthritis

Mohit Kapoor

November 13, 2025

The integral roles of diet and exercise in the remodeling of human skeletal muscle

Daniel Moore

dr.moore@utoronto.ca

November 20, 2025

Osteoclasts

Morris Manolson

m.manolson@dentistry.utoronto.ca

November 27, 2025

Monocytes and macrophages and their role in osteoarthritis

Sowmya Viswanathan

sowmya.viswanathan@utoronto.ca

December 4, 2025

Musculoskeletal biomechanics

Cari Whyne

cari.whyne@sunnybrook.ca