Regenerative Orthopaedics

Meet the team

Program leader

Prof Martin Stoddart

Vize Director
Program Leader
Focus Area Leader:
Progenitor Cell Biology



Principal scientists

Prof Mauro Alini

Emeritus Research Advisor

Dr Matteo D' Este

Focus Area Leader:
Biomedical Materials

Dr Sibylle Grad, PD

Deputy Program Leader
Focus Area Leader:
Disc and Cartilage Biology

Dr Zhen Li, Visit Prof


Dr T Fintan Moriarty, PhD

Focus Area Leader:
Infection Biology

Dr Sophie Verrier



Project leaders

Thomas Krueger

Project Leader

Dr Pamela Nylund

Junior Project Leader

Dr Ursula Menzel

Senior Project Leader, PhD

Dr Christoph Sprecher

Project Leader



Senior research scientists

Dr Esther Wehrle, Dr med vet PhD

Focus Area Leader:
Bone Biology

Dr Elena Della Bella



Research scientists

Dr Junxuan Ma

Dr Tiziano Serra

Focus Area Leader:
Sound Guided Tissue Regeneration

Dr Jacek Wychowaniec

Dr Claudia Siverino



Senior technicians

Simona Casutt

Nicolas Devantay

Pamela Furlong

Iris Keller


Dr Virginia Post


Lab Technician

Severine Flück


Post docs

Dr Ezgi Bektas

Dr Alessandro Cianciosi

Dr Marco Chittò

Dr Huan Meng


Dr Fatemeh Safari

Dr Maja Schlittler

Dr Maria Schröder 

Katrin Sophie Wendrich 




PhD students

Carolina Cordeiro

Pia Fehrenbach

Nico Giger

Elian Kuhn


Laura Mecchi

Danilo Menghini 

Marcia Mürner

Liru Wen


Jiangyao Xu 

Daniele Zuncheddu

Jorge Ubeda Garrido

Claire Chabot


Anita Jose



Apprentices

Marina Kurz


Meet the fellows, interns and guests

Medical research fellowships

Providing motivated surgeons and scientists with on-site research training to gain experience in R&D projects focusing on relevant clinical problems.

Internships and guest research visits

Provide motivated students and scientists with on-site research training to gain experience in R&D projects focusing on relevant clinical problems.


AO Research Institute Davos's research programs

Learn more about Biomedical Development and Preclinical Services.