Botnar Research Centre
The Botnar Research Centre, housing the Oxford University Institute of Musculoskeletal Sciences, opened in 2002 with the mission statement 'To enable and encourage research and education into the causes of musculoskeletal diseases and their treatment'. It provides a state-of-the-art facility on the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre site for our research activities. The research centre has 1000 square metres of space on each of its two floors, and can accommodate 120 scientists.
Being situated on the grounds of the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre puts the Botnar in a unique position with basic researchers working alongside clinicians. This substantially improves the research capacity of the centre, improving access for researchers to patients, and facilitating the interaction between clinicians and basic scientists that is essential for successful medical research.
Major interests of the centre's researchers include genetics of osteoarthritis, osteoporosis and inflammatory arthritis, osteoclast and osteoblast biology, and biomedical engineering.
The Institute's investigators hold grants from a variety of funding bodies, including The Wellcome Trust, The Arthritis Research Campaign (ARC), Research into Ageing, Procter & Gamble, The Furlong Research Charitable Foundation, EULAR and the European Union
The centre also organises a range of conferences and courses for scientists and hospital and community based clinicians.
Address:
Botnar Research Centre,
Institute of Musculoskeletal Sciences,
Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences,
Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre,
Windmill Road,
Oxford,
OX3 7LD