Robert E. Guldberg, director of Georgia Tech’sParker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB), has beenappointed chairperson of the Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering Study Sectionin the Center for Scientific Review – part of the National Institutes ofHealth.

Guldberg will serve as chairperson of the study section fromJuly 1, 2011, to June 30, 2013. The study section will contribute to thenational biomedical research effort and assure the quality of the NIH peerreview process.

Guldberg's research interests focus on musculoskeletalgrowth and development, functional regeneration following traumatic injury anddegenerative diseases, including skeletal fragility and arthritis

According to Dr. Toni Scarpa, director of the Center forScientific Review in NIH’s Department of Health and Human Services, Guldbergwas selected for the chair position because of his demonstrated achievement inhis scientific discipline, quality of research accomplishments, publications inscientific journals and overall judgment and objectivity.

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

In 1996, Guldberg joined Georgia Tech, serving both in IBBand the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. He was appointeddirector of IBB in November 2009.

Guldberg holds an undergraduate degree in mechanicalengineering, a master’s degree in bioengineering and mechanical engineering,and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan.