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Edward M. Schwarz

Edward M.
Schwarz
Ph.D
Professor of Orthopaedics
Center for Musculoskeletal Research
University of Rochester Medical Center
Associate Director

Dr. Edward Schwarz is Professor of Orthopaedics and Associate Director of the Center for Musculoskeletal Research at the University of Rochester Medical Center, in Rochester, NY. His laboratory focuses on inflammatory bone loss, such as that seen in rheumatoid arthritis, infections, tumor metastasis and wear debris-induced osteolysis around loose prosthetic implants. Dr. Schwarz is also a leader in orthopaedic gene therapy and stem cell research, for which his lab has developed novel rAAV delivery approaches including rAAV-coated allografts for segmental defects, and light-activated gene transduction for articular cartilage repair.

Dr. Schwarz's lab is also interested in developing translational in vivo imaging outcome measures including dynamic MRI in the mouse knee and cone beam CT to assess vascularity in patients with orthopaedic implants. More recently, Dr. Schwarz's lab has combined these gene therapy technology and outcome measures with biocompatible carriers and stem cells to generate novel tissue engineering constructs for bone, cartilage, ligament and tendon.

Select Publications: 

Reynolds DG, Shaikh S, Papuga MO, Lerner AL, O'Keefe RJ, Schwarz EM, Awad HA. muCT-based measurement of cortical bone graft-to-host union. J Bone Miner Res. 2009 May;24(5):899-907.

Loiselle AE, Bragdon GA, Jacobson JA, Hasslund S, Cortes ZE, Schwarz EM, Mitten DJ, Awad HA, O'Keefe RJ. Remodeling of murine intrasynovial tendon adhesions following injury: MMP and neotendon gene expression. J Orthop Res. 2009 Jun;27(6):833-40.

Kitaori T, Ito H, Schwarz EM, Tsutsumi R, Yoshitomi H, Oishi S, Nakano M, Fujii N, Nagasawa T, Nakamura T. Stromal cell-derived factor 1/CXCR4 signaling is critical for the recruitment of mesenchymal stem cells to the fracture site during skeletal repair in a mouse model. Arthritis Rheum. 2009 Mar;60(3):813-23.

Naik AA, Xie C, Zuscik MJ, Kingsley P, Schwarz EM, Awad H, Guldberg R, Drissi H, Puzas JE, Boyce B, Zhang X, O'Keefe RJ. Reduced COX-2 expression in aged mice is associated with impaired fracture healing. J Bone Miner Res. 2009 Feb;24(2):251-64.

Xie C, Ming X, Wang Q, Schwarz EM, Guldberg RE, O'Keefe RJ, Zhang X. COX-2 from the injury milieu is critical for the initiation of periosteal progenitor cell mediated bone healing. Bone. 2008 Dec;43(6):1075-83.

Kaback LA, Soung do Y, Naik A, Geneau G, Schwarz EM, Rosier RN, O'Keefe RJ, Drissi H. Teriparatide (1-34 human PTH) regulation of osterix during fracture repair. J Cell Biochem. 2008 Sep 1;105(1):219-26.

Ehrhart N, Kraft S, Conover D, Rosier RN, Schwarz EM. Quantification of massive allograft healing with dynamic contrast enhanced-MRI and cone beam-CT: a pilot study. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2008 Aug;466(8):1897-904.

Basile P, Dadali T, Jacobson J, Hasslund S, Ulrich-Vinther M, Soballe K, Nishio Y, Drissi MH, Langstein HN, Mitten DJ, O'Keefe RJ, Schwarz EM, Awad HA. Freeze-dried tendon allografts as tissue-engineering scaffolds for Gdf5 gene delivery. Mol Ther. 2008 Mar;16(3):466-73.

Reynolds DG, Hock C, Shaikh S, Jacobson J, Zhang X, Rubery PT, Beck CA, O'keefe RJ, Lerner AL, Schwarz EM, Awad HA. Micro-computed tomography prediction of biomechanical strength in murine structural bone grafts. J Biomech. 2007;40(14):3178-86.

Xie C, Reynolds D, Awad H, Rubery PT, Pelled G, Gazit D, Guldberg RE, Schwarz EM, O'Keefe RJ, Zhang X. Structural bone allograft combined with genetically engineered mesenchymal stem cells as a novel platform for bone tissue engineering. Tissue Eng. 2007 Mar;13(3):435-45.

Koefoed M, Ito H, Gromov K, Reynolds DG, Awad HA, Rubery PT, Ulrich-Vinther M, Soballe K, Guldberg RE, Lin AS, O'Keefe RJ, Zhang X, Schwarz EM. Biological effects of rAAV-caAlk2 coating on structural allograft healing. Mol Ther. 2005 Aug;12(2):212-8.

Ito H, Koefoed M, Tiyapatanaputi P, Gromov K, Goater JJ, Carmouche J, Zhang X, Rubery PT, Rabinowitz J, Samulski RJ, Nakamura T, Soballe K, O'Keefe RJ, Boyce BF, Schwarz EM. Remodeling of cortical bone allografts mediated by adherent rAAV-RANKL and VEGF gene therapy. Nat Med. 2005 Mar;11(3):291-7.