Trainees

Alex Scott
University of British Columbia
Post Doctoral Fellow    
Email: ascott@interchange.ubc.ca

Alex obtained a BSc in Physical Therapy in 2000, an MSc in Human Kinetics in 2002, and a PhD in Experimental Medicine in 2008, all from UBC. His PhD focused on the mechanisms of tendinopathy, and was awarded the Top Graduating Doctoral Student award at the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute. Alex’s research goal is to understand the influences of physiologic movement on tenocyte biology, and to incorporate this knowledge into new clinical strategies for tendinopathy. Since arriving at the Underhill laboratory in July 2008, he has begun establishing a program involving (1) in vitro studies of tenocyte differentiation using the FlexCell © system, (2) a mouse tendinopathy model incorporating various imaging techniques and gene expression analysis, and (3) analysis of phenotypic variation in injured human tendons using laser capture microdissection. He is an instructor in the Physical Therapy department at UBC, and is affiliated with the Centre for Hip Health and Mobility. He is funded by fellowships from CIHR and the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research. Outside work, his main past time is playing with his 2 children.