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OA Centre Administrator |
Charlotte Kerr |
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Websites
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OA Centre
Director
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Vincent Group | Molecular Pathogenesis of Osteoarthritis
Research Group, Kennedy Institute
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What are the processes in cells that cause OA?
Theme lead, OA Centre
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What causes pain in OA?
Theme lead, OA Centre
Tonia Vincent
FRCP, PhD
Professor of Musculoskeletal Biology
- Consultant rheumatologist
- Director, Centre for Osteoarthritis Pathogenesis
Tonia Vincent studied medicine at UCL, qualifying in 1993. She trained as a junior doctor in London, later specialising in Rheumatology. In 1998 she took time out to do a PhD at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology under Professor Jeremy Saklatvala (awarded 2002). She continued at the Kennedy Institute as a Wellcome Trust clinician scientist and subsequently as an Arthritis Research UK Senior Fellow. In 2012 the Kennedy Institute moved to the University of Oxford and she was appointed Professor of Musculoskeletal Biology.
She directs the Centre for OA Pathogenesis funded by Versus Arthritis. Her research interests include pathways that drive mechanosensitive responses in cartilage, the role of the pericellular matrix in determining these responses and how they modulate osteoarthritis in vivo. Her work is funded by Versus Arthritis, MRC, ERC and the Kennedy Trust for Rheumatology Research. She continues to be clinically active, running both osteoarthritis clinics and the multidisciplinary Marfan Syndrome clinic.