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Philippa Hulley
BSc Med, BSc Med (Hons), PhD
Associate Professor
- University Lecturer in Musculoskeletal Sciences
Associate Professor Hulley studied pattern formation during a developmental biology PhD at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and followed this with post-doctoral work on cell signal transduction pathways in the Basel Preclinical Research Laboratories of Sandoz Pharma AG (now Novartis).
She joined the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, as a Senior Scientist/Lecturer in 1996, and focused on mapping the changes in normal osteoblast signalling that are produced by clinical doses of glucocorticoids and which cause steroid osteoporosis.
Moving to Oxford, Assoc. Prof. Hulley was awarded a 5 year Arthritis Research UK Fellowship in 2004, University Research Lectureship in 2005, followed in 2007 by a 5 year RCUK Fellowship, teaching as Academic Fellow at St Hilda's College.
Since 2012, she has been University Lecturer in Musculoskeletal Sciences and a Tutorial Fellow at St Hilda's College.
Recent publications
Fibroblast specialisation across microanatomy in a single-cell atlas of healthy human Achilles tendon
Preprint
Cohen CJ. et al, (2025)
Exploring cellular changes in ruptured human quadriceps tendons at single-cell resolution.
Journal article
Mimpen JY. et al, (2025), J Physiol, 603, 4535 - 4554
Exploring cellular changes in ruptured human quadriceps tendons at single-cell resolution
Preprint
Mimpen J. et al, (2024)
Single nucleus and spatial transcriptomic profiling of healthy human hamstring tendon.
Journal article
Mimpen JY. et al, (2024), FASEB J, 38
SYNOVIAL FLUID BASED MOLECULAR ENDOTYPES IN KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS: FULL PRIMARY ANALYSIS FROM THE STEPUp OA CONSORTIUM
Conference paper
Deng Y. et al, (2024), Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 32, S55 - S56
IDENTIFYING MOLECULAR PATHWAYS ASSOCIATED WITH RADIOGRAPHIC STAGE IN KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS THROUGH LARGE-SCALE PROTEOMICS OF SYNOVIAL FLUID: DATA FROM THE STEPUP OA CONSORTIUM
Journal article
Perry TA. et al, (2024), Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 32, S473 - S473
Use of oxygen-loaded nanobubbles to improve tissue oxygenation: Bone-relevant mechanisms of action and effects on osteoclast differentiation.
Journal article
Knowles HJ. et al, (2024), Biomaterials, 305
Development of methodology to support molecular endotype discovery from synovial fluid of individuals with knee osteoarthritis: The STEpUP OA consortium.
Journal article
Deng Y. et al, (2024), PLoS One, 19
admap for delivering a human musculoskeletal cell atlas.
Journal article
Baldwin M. et al, (2023), Nat Rev Rheumatol, 19, 738 - 752
Mature primary human osteocytes in mini organotypic cultures secrete FGF23 and PTH1-34-regulated sclerostin.
Journal article
Knowles HJ. et al, (2023), Front Endocrinol (Lausanne), 14