Daniel A. Grande PhD

Dr. Grande is associate investigator and director of Orthopaedic Research at the Feinstein Institute for Medical research. He is also associate professor at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. He completed his PhD at New York University and his post-doctoral fellowship ion biomechanics at the Hospital for Special Surgery. He has worked extensively in the area of regenerative medicine and tissue engineering. His early work developed the first use of cell based therapy for cartilage repair, currently known as autologus chondrocyte transplantation.
He is the author of over 80 peer review publications and five book chapters. He has served on committees with the Orthopaedic Research Society as spine topic chair and on the basic science committee. Dr, Grande is significantly involved in mentoring and teaching of orthopaedic residents for his department. He has been a reviewer for a number of journals including: Journal of Orthopaedic Research, Clinical Orthopaedics, Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, American Journal of Sports Medicine, Nature Reviews Rheumatology and Journal of Applied Biomaterials.
Dr. Grande has been awarded eight patents and helped found two companies in the orthopaedic surgery field of use. He has also served as a member of the scientific advisory boards for several companies. He completed a five year rotation with OREF to assist in grant reviews, and regularly serves on NIH study sections for RO1, R21, and SBIR/STTR grants specific to musculoskeletal applications.