Dr. Chrissy Hammond

Biography

Professor Chrissy Hammond specializes in Musculoskeletal Biology with a focus on skeletal diseases using zebrafish models. After graduating from the University of Oxford with a degree in Biochemistry in 2002, she completed her PhD at King's College London under the guidance of Prof Simon Hughes. Following her graduate work in 2006, she briefly worked on chick skeletal development at the Royal Veterinary College. In 2007, she received an EMBO long-term fellowship and moved to the Hubrecht Institute in the Netherlands, where she developed genetic tools for studying zebrafish skeletons. In 2010, she established her own research group at the University of Bristol, supported by a Versus Arthritis Career Development Fellowship. Her research addresses the regulation of cartilage and bone homeostasis and its implications in osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, and Stickler syndrome. She leads a collaborative team that investigates the interplay between genetics, environmental factors, and mechanical loading in skeletal form and function disease progression. Hammond's lab is committed to interdisciplinary research and open science, with ongoing projects including the role of neutrophils in fracture repair and the impacts of metabolism on skeletal homeostasis.

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