Robert E. Guldberg, professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of Georgia Tech’s Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB), has been appointed chairperson of the Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering Study Section in the Center for Scientific Review – part of the National Institutes of Health.

Guldberg's research interests focus on musculoskeletal growth and development, functional regeneration following traumatic injury and degenerative diseases, including skeletal fragility and arthritis.  According to Dr. Toni Scarpa, director of the Center for Scientific Review in NIH’s Department of Health and Human Services, Guldberg was selected for the chair position because of his demonstrated achievement in his scientific discipline, quality of research accomplishments, publications in scientific journals and overall judgment and objectivity.

At Georgia Tech, Guldberg studies cell-based therapies, bone biomechanics, musculoskeletal injury, joint degeneration, biomaterials and delivery, and micro-CT imaging. His laboratory creates strategies and enables technologies for the functional restoration of damaged or degenerated musculoskeletal tissues, with a focus on bone and cartilage.