Professor Karina Wright

Professor Karina Wright is a basic scientist, based at the Keele University laboratories in the Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt (RJAH) Orthopaedic Hospital Foundation Trust, Oswestry. She is the Director of Keele’s Centre for Regenerative Medicine Research (launched in 2023) and leads undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in the Schools of Pharmacy and Bioengineering and Life Sciences on Applied/Translational Regenerative Medicine.

Her laboratory group at the RJAH develops and tests novel biological therapies for orthopaedic patients. Her team’s research transcends the bench to bedside translational pipeline, from in vitro analyses, organ-on-a-chip systems, pre-clinical models, clinical trials and finally NICE approved treatments. They are equally interested in learning from bedside to bench through reverse translational research, by collecting and analysing human cells and tissues and relating biological profiles to clinical outcomes in an effort to refine, tailor and develop novel treatments.

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