Core A Director

Matthew Silva, PhD
Orthopaedic Surgery
- Phone: 314-362-8585
- Email: silvam@nospam.wustl.edu
Focus: Bone biomechanics and mechanobiology. Our lab focuses on two main questions.
1) How does mechanical loading stimulate bone formation?
2) How do bones heal after injury?
Associate Directors

Roberto Civitelli
Internal Medicine – Bone & Mineral Diseases
- Phone: 314-454-8906
- Email: civitellir@nospam.wustl.edu
Focus: the cellular and molecular basis of the bone remodeling process, and to devise mechanisms by which this balance can be modified.

Deborah Veis, MD, PhD
Bone & Mineral Diseases
- Phone: 314-454-8472
- Email: dveis@nospam.wustl.edu
Focus: models of pathological bone loss including osteoporosis, breast cancer metastasis to bone, inflammatory arthritis and osteomyelitis

Roberta Faccio
Orthopaedic Surgery
- Phone: 314-747-4602
- Email: faccior@nospam.wustl.edu
Focus: the identification of common molecules that can modulate the activation of immune cells as well as osteoclasts.
Administrative Coordinator
Research Administrator