Thomas Aigner

Pathology, University of Leipzig, Germany

Thomas Aigner

Academic positions:
- Professor of Oncological Pathology
- Deputy Director of the Institute of Pathology

All industry positions (in last five years):
None

Research interests:
- Cell biology of the (aging) skeleton, functional genomics of osteoarthritis, tissue engineering, matrix biochemistry and pathology, neoplasias of the skeleton

Any other information:

-OARSI Board of Directors

Memberships in Scientific Societies
- German Society of Pathology
- International Academy of Pathology
- Working Group Skeletal Onkology at the German Cancer Center, Heidelberg
- Orthopedic Research Society
- Osteoarthritis Research Society International
- German Society of Connective Tissue Research
- International Society for Matrix Biology

Editorial Board Memberships
- Arthritis and Rheumatism
- Osteoarthritis and Cartilage
- Journal of Orthopaedic Research
- Current Reviews in Rheumatology


On F1000 Medicine:
- This website is clearly a good opportunity for clinicians and scientists to update themselves with the progress made in their field of interest. In particular the non-specialist but interested reader will find extremely useful hints which might optimally stimulate selected further reading of the cited and commented primary articles

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Faculty Member: Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology > Cartilage Biology & Osteoarthritis (since 11 June 2007)

All recent recommendations

• 9.0
  Osteoarthritis.
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• 3.0
  Hypoxic expansion promotes the chondrogenic potential of articular chondrocytes.
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• 3.0
  ESE-1 is a potent repressor of type II collagen gene (COL2A1) transcription in human chondrocytes.
  Recommended by Thomas Aigner
  
• 3.0
  The protective effect of OP-1 on articular cartilage in the development of osteoarthritis.
  Recommended by Thomas Aigner
  
• 3.0
  Computational identification and functional validation of regulatory motifs in cartilage-expressed genes.
  Recommended by Thomas Aigner
  
• 3.0
  Role of subchondral bone in osteoarthritis development: a comparative study of two strains of guinea pigs with and without spontaneously occurring osteoarthritis.
  Recommended by Thomas Aigner
  
• 9.0
  Stimulation of BMP-2 expression by pro-inflammatory cytokines IL-1 and TNF-alpha in normal and osteoarthritic chondrocytes.
  Recommended by Thomas Aigner