UCSF Sports Medicine, MITO Lab receive prestigious Cabaud Memorial Award in orthopaedic research

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UCSF’s Hannah Chi, MS, at left, and Dr. C. Benjamin Ma receive the Caboud Memorial Award in research at the AAOSM’s annual meeting held earlier this month in Washington, DC. (Courtesy Photo)

SAN FRANCISCO (July 21, 2023) -- The UCSF Department of Orthopaedic Surgery is pleased to announce that the Muscle Injury and Translational Orthopaedic (MITO) Laboratory -- run by Dr. Brian Feeley and Dr. Xuhui Liu -- received the 2023 Cabaud Memorial Award by the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM).

Given annually in honor of Henry Edward (“Ed”) Cabaud, III, MD by the AOSSM Research Committee, the research award honors the the best full-length manuscript submitted that pertains to hard or soft tissue biology, in-vitro research, laboratory or “bench-type” research, or in-vivo animal research.

2023 Cabaud Memorial Award

Title of Paper: Defining Endogenous Mitochondrial Transfer in Muscle Following Rotator Cuff Injury

Recipients: Michael Davies, MD, Hannah Chi, MS, Steven Garcia, MD, Prashant Nuthalapati, BA, Hubert Kim, MD, PhD, Xuhui Liu, MD, Brian Feeley, MD

The primary researchers on this paper are Michael Davies, MD, who recently completed his residency in the Department and is currently a fellow in Sports Medicine at the Hospital for Special Surgery, and Hannah Chi, MS, who is currently a medical student at UCSF.

Congratulations to everyone in the MITO Lab on their research accomplishments!

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