July 22, 2021
Congratulations to Manula Rathnayake, who is in the final stages of his PhD journey. Manula has been offered a Knowledge & Technology Transfer (K&TT) Internship position within the STEM cluster at the University of Melbourne. This internship offers a good opportunity to gain experience and learn about commercialisation of research.
July 6, 2021
We’re excited to be attending the 26th congress of the European Society of Biomechanics next week. On Tuesday, 13/7/2021 from 9.30am (CEST) we’ll be holding presentations all around imaging for musculoskeletal applications. Manuela Boos is going to kick us off with her presentation about “Contrast-enhanced micro-CT for 3D visualization of GAG content in different cartilage …
June 15, 2021
Congratulations to Manula Rathnayake for winning the Matrix Biology Society of Australia and New Zealand’s Paper of the Month (March 2021) for his paper “Macromolecular Interactions in Cartilage Extracellular Matrix Vary According to the Cartilage Type and Location” published in Cartilage.
June 13, 2021
We are excited to announce that A/Prof Kathryn Stok received an Australian Government ARC LIEF grant over $875,000 for a 3-photon microscope in partnership with Professors Scott Mueller and Bill Heath at the Doherty Institute. The ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment & Facilities scheme supports excellent research through the acquisition of research equipment and infrastructure, as …
June 10, 2021
Congratulations to Frances Ryan and Manuela Boos for receiving these prestigious scholarships. Frances received the 2021 Nicola Andrews Scholarship, which supports talented women who are passionate about making a difference in the field of biomedical engineering. Manuela received the 2021 Diane Lemaire Scholarship to visit the University of Otago in Christchurch, New Zealand. This scholarship …
June 9, 2021
We recently published the paper “Macromolecular Interactions in Cartilage Extracellular Matrix Vary According to the Cartilage Type and Location” in Cartilage and the paper “Quantitative measures of bone shape, cartilage morphometry and joint alignment are associated with disease in an ACLT and MMx rat model of osteoarthritis” in Bone.
June 7, 2021
The entire ICRG team would like to congratulate Dr Kathryn Stok for being appointed Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne!
22 December 2020
2020 is not the year any of us planned – including the ICR Group. It’s involved a lot of re-scoping and re-focussing. So all said, we are happy to celebrate the achievements; big and small: Endeavour Discipline Prize (Mechanical Engineering) for Nigel Kour, Joshua Parker, Kelvin Wang and Will Hoon Publications by Mateus, Colet, Nigel …
22 December 2020
There are two joint PhD positions available with the Integrative Cartilage Research Group (UoM) and Rehabilitation Sciences (UoT). Find out more about each project, including programme details and eligibility requirements.
6 August 2019
Are you interested in joining the ICR Group for a research project? Visit to find Capstone, Summer, MSc and PhD research opportunities. We are currently looking for two PhD students in: Digital Image Processing and Analysis for microCT In Vivo Musculoskeletal Imaging
7 June 2019
Congratulations to Nigel Kour who has been awarded the 2019 Boeing Award for Excellence. The Boeing Awards for Excellence recognise and support outstanding achievements by students in the penultimate year of the Master of Engineering.
7 June 2019
Congratulations to Manula Rathnayke, who has been selected for the EXCITE Summer School on Biomedical Imaging at ETH Zürich in September. We look forward to learning from you when you return. http://www.excite.ethz.ch/education/summer-school.html
7 June 2019
Welcome to Manuela Boos, (graduate of ETH Zürich, Switzerland) who has joined the ICR Group as doctoral candidate. Manuela is has a Master of Science in Medical Technology and is exploring mechanoregulatory communication and remodelling networks in cartilage tissue models. We also welcome Matthieu Raison, a Masters student at Grenoble Institute of Technology (France), and … More New Staff and Students
17 April 2019
The ICR Group have moved to the Biomedical Engineering Building on Bouverie St. We are pleased to have some more space for our growing team. Feel free to come by, and say hello.