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Brigitte  Von Rechenberg

Brigitte Von Rechenberg

Biotechnology
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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Prof. Dr. med. vet. Brigitte von Rechenberg is the Head of the Steering Committee of the Competence Center of Applied Biotechnology and Molecular Medicine (CABMM) and is a Board Certified veterinary surgeon (Dipl. ECVS).

She has extensive experience in clinical and experimental animal surgery, and has operated > 3500 sheep for different research projects. Her main research interest is based on bone and cartilage research focusing on mechanisms of cartilage remodeling and resurfacing and substitutes for cartilage and bone. In this area she has completed and published several research projects, where osteochondral plugs were used as cartilage replacement. In addition she is engaged in several projects related to the spine, such as vertebroplasty, disc degeneration and posterolateral fusion
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