Rahul S Tare's Biography

Rahul S Tare, Lecturer, University Of Southampton

Rahul was awarded a PhD from the University of Southampton (2002) and undertook postdoctoral research in the University of Massachusetts Medical School (2002-2004) and University of Southampton (2004-2010), where he was awarded the Career Track Fellowship supported by the Wellcome Trust Value in People Award (2008) and appointed to a Lectureship in Musculoskeletal Science and Bioengineering in the Faculties of Medicine and Engineering (2010). Research in Rahul’s group focuses on stem cells, tissue engineering and skeletal development. The work has been instrumental in developing strategies for isolation of skeletal stem cells (SSCs), elucidating the SSC phenotype and defining conditions to manipulate SSC differentiation into principal stromal lineages. A multidisciplinary approach encompassing skeletal cells, acoustofluidics and mathematical modelling has been harnessed to bioengineer robust cartilage grafts, and is now being extended to human embryonic stem cell-derived mesenchymal stem cells. The group also seek to understand the molecular basis of skeletal development and disease through improved appreciation of the role of molecular chaperones and co-chaperones in chondrogenesis and osteogenesis. Rahul is a recipient of the Career Establishment Award from the European Calcified Tissue Society (2011) and further details on Rahul’s publications can be found on, http://www.southampton.ac.uk/medicine/research/staff/rt2.page?#publications