Professor Hung

Editor-in-Chief: Professor Clark T. Hung, Ph.D.

Professor Hung holds a B.S. from Brown University (Bioengineering) and an M.S.E. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania (Bioengineering).  He is currently a Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Director of the Cellular Engineering Laboratory in the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University. He has published widely on physical effects and regulation in orthopaedic cells/tissues and is actively engaged in research on cartilage mechanotransduction and functional tissue engineering. Dr. Hung has received grant funding from sources including The Whitaker Foundation, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, and The Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation.  He currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Biomechanical Engineering and is a Deputy Editor for the Journal of Orthopaedic Research.

Professor Gupta

Associate Editor: Professor Ranjan Gupta, M.D.

Dr. Gupta holds a B.S. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an M.D. from Albany Medical College through the Accelerated Six Year Biomedical Program.  He completed a general surgery internship, orthopaedic surgery residency, and an NIH Post Doctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania.  Subsequently, Dr. Gupta completed fellowship training in hand surgery/microsurgery at the University of California, Los Angeles, followed by an AO Fellowship in hand surgery/traumatology/shoulder at the University of Berne in Switzerland.  He is currently the Professor and Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of California, Irvine where his clinical practice is focused on upper extremity surgery.  Dr. Gupta's research interests include both clinical and basic science.  He is the director of the Peripheral Nerve Research Laboratory at UC Irvine which focuses on understanding nerve regeneration and Schwann cell control of neural injury.  He has published studies on topics ranging from rotator cuff injuries to distal radius fractures to kinematic research focused on shoulder arthroplasty and DRUJ stability. Dr. Gupta has received grant funding from the National Instititutes of Health, the Aircast Orthopaedic Foundation, and the Whitaker Foundation.  He has won numerous awards including the Marshall Urist Young Investigator Award, the Kappa Delta Award, and the Sterling Bunnel Award.