Enjoying some sun 🌞 after another morning of recruiting subjects for their study looking at the impact of inflammation on skeletal muscle maintenance in hospitalized patients (InflaMus): study leader @grithhojfeldt.bsky.social and medical students, Tobias Christiansen & Louise Helmbæk

Time to bring out the big 🔫 for this morning meeting! Prof. Michael Krogsgaard gives an insightful presentation on the problem of the ankle and highlights the unanswered scientific questions of how to best treat them through surgical means💡

At @lundbeckfonden.bsky.social Hearts x Minds Festival in Aarhus, Dr Anne Theil Gates and Eline Baad-Hansen talked about physical health and cognitive function with exercise 💙 🧠 💪

Today we celebrated friend and collaborator Prof. Kristoffer Barfod’s inaugural lecture. Congratulation from us at the ISMC!

This mornings department meeting was a presentation by Charlotte Anker-Petersen from Sports Orthopedics Research Centre Copenhagen who presented her PhD projects on injury epidemiology, clinical findings and risk factors in TeamGym gymnasts. Her latest paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Today’s department meeting was presented by Max Ravn Merkel on the research MAGNETOM Free.Star MRI scanner and its possibilities. We also had an introduction to what the new CPH Center for Translational Research has to offer 🤩 Lots of new tools for our researchers with enthusiastic support 👩‍🔬

Congrats Ask!

At the @dsmb-dk.bsky.social Annual Meeting 2025 and PhD student Ask Møbjerg is presenting our latest work on the acute effects of exercise on ECM remodelling of human muscle-tendon tissues using snRNAseq and RNAscope 🏋️‍♀️🔬 @ismcopenhagen.bsky.social

To kick-off this semester's Thursday morning meetings, PhD student Frederik Nielsen, supervised by @abigailmackey1.bsky.social and @grithhojfeldt.bsky.social, introduced his exciting study on enhancing muscle and bone protein synthesis in elderly females🦴💪🙌

BSMB Autumn meeting Surrey talking about our latest work. Very proud of Team Tendon & collaborators for persevering with such a difficult tissue 👏 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @ismcopenhagen.bsky.social @steffendanielle.bsky.social @valerioizzi.bsky.social @abigailmackey1.bsky.social

Team Tendon bids farewell to @steffendanielle.bsky.social and celebrates a paper submission tonight with a lovely meal out together 🥰 We’ll miss her energy, insightful questions and friendly presence at @ismcopenhagen.bsky.social

Yesterday afternoon we held our summer party with the perfect summer weather 🌞 A huge thank you to our medical student Tobias Holst-Christensen and all the helpers for organising biathlon, snacks, dinner and games! 🔫 🏃‍♀️🍉🧃🍔🎯🔨

A special seminar from @jarodforer.bsky.social visiting from @uoregon.bsky.social to tell us about his PhD so far, specifically a project characterizing the fluid response to injury in rat Achilles tendons. Thanks for stopping by the institute to share your work!

Postdoc Casper Soendenbroe doing an excellent job presenting now @ecssofficial.bsky.social in Rimini: FLEXING MUSCLES AND STIMULATING NERVES – THE EFFECTS OF HEAVY RESISTANCE EXERCISE ON MUSCLE INNERVATION💪🙌

At the @ecssofficial.bsky.social 2025 meeting in Rimini, @abigailmackey1.bsky.social is in the plenary session, Mechanisms of Human Skeletal Muscle Hypertrophy with her talk “Don’t forget, hypertrophy is not just for the beach - the structural and cellular drivers & facilitators of hypertrophy”

Today we had took advantage of Dr Chavaunne Thorpe’s visit and asked her to present her research on The Diverse Roles of the Interfascicular Matrix in Tendon Health, Ageing and Disease and have a mini discussion meeting with the Tendon Group. Thanks for an insightful visit!

What a day we’ve had! Ann Damgaard defended her PhD investigating the influence of mechanical loading, hormonal changes and tendinopathy on human patellar tendon adaptations spectacularly today! Many thanks to the opponents Prof Andy Carr @ox.ac.uk & Chavaunne Thorpe @royalvetcollege.bsky.social 🎉🥳

Congratulations to Leonard Pulevic on getting a very well-deserved top grade in your Pharmaceutical Sciences MSc exam this morning on the topic of muscle disuse and regeneration, supervised by Casper Søndenbroe, Grith Højfeldt and @abigailmackey1.bsky.social 🙌💪🙌

🚨New literature review from Ann Damgaard MD (soon to defend PhD!): Physical activity and other modifiers of extracellular matrix dynamics in healthy and diseased tendon tissue: focus on in vivo techniques journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....

In today’s departmental meeting, @annesofieagergaard.bsky.social gives us a much anticipated update on the TEREX trial looking at the role of restitution time in exercise-based treatment of patellar tendinopathy. She’s also joined forces with Carl-Johan Boraxbekk to look at brain connectivity too! 👀

🧪 Check out our new publication @ismcopenhagen.bsky.social highlighting important considerations for using CAF as a biomarker of muscle wasting, lead by 1st author Casper Soendenbroe 💪 ⚠️Exercise timing and medication matter. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

End of semester get together for the group and special send off for Christian Høgsbjerg who will spend the next few months of his PhD @mourkiotilab.bsky.social doing some cool #MTJ 🐭science! @ismcopenhagen.bsky.social

Team Tendon feat. Dr @laurenpringels.bsky.social for a sunny Sunday BBQ! 🍔🦐🌭🥗😎 @ccstorytime.bsky.social @steffendanielle.bsky.social

This afternoon we were treated to an inspiring talk by Dr. Camila Carballo, from HSS, New York, on the exciting translational research they are doing on ACL injury and reconstruction 👏👏 Thank you for the visit Camila!

Yesterday’s department meeting was delivered by our residence science TV star @jakobagergaard.bsky.social explaining energy availability in sports and how grueling training schedules can affect athlete’s physical health and risk of injuries. 🥗🍗<🚴🏊‍♀️🏃=🦴🤕

This morning’s meeting is presented by PhD to be Pernille Hansen from the Geriatric Department at Bispebjerg Hospital. She will talk about “The interplay between falls, sarcopenia, and frailty in mobility-limited older adults” 👵💪 #ageing #muscle

Our 2026 PhD course is now open for registration🤩 @ismcopenhagen.bsky.social Copenhagen, 5-7 October 2026 Musculoskeletal tissue regeneration – mechanisms and clinical perspectives Exciting topics and expert teachers - come join us! phdcourses.ku.dk/DetailKursus...

Our latest review is out now in @jphysiol.bsky.social The repair capacity spectrum of human skeletal muscle injury from sports to surgical trauma settings Great team effort 🙌 @grithhojfeldt.bsky.social, Christian Hoegsbjerg, Arvind von Keudell @ismcopenhagen.bsky.social doi.org/10.1113/JP28...

This morning’s meeting is delivered by our guest clinician and researcher @laurenpringels.bsky.social who recently completed his PhD at Ghent University talking about “Achilles tendinopathy - Exploring the role of intratendinous pressure” 🦵 #tendon

Excited to be awarded a TENET COST Short Term Scientific Mission Grant to learn from Chavaunne Thorpe and her group and to set up a collaboration with them and the group of Hazel Screen! @ismcopenhagen.bsky.social #teamtendon #cellbiology #circadian Image created by ChatGPT

It’s been a while since we celebrated published manuscripts! In today’s continuation of the Friday Sandwich Seminars, where we do just that, Christian Hoegsbjerg talks about the publication journey for his paper 🥪👏🎉 journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Such a pleasure to host @rglezgz.bsky.social (pictured discussing with Dr Naiara Demnitz) at the institute for 2 months working on our longitudinal LISA cohort linking physical exercise to brain aging! And congratulations of your grant from the Danish Data Science Academy 💪👏🥳

This morning’s department meeting is presented by Dr Casper Søndenbroe. A dynamic update of the work he’s done so far on his @lundbeckorsmith.bsky.social Postdoc research grant! 🤩 Check the thread out for details.

This morning Prof. @abigailmackey1.bsky.social & Dr. @ccstorytime.bsky.social were interviewed by Sandra Pankoke, the communications consultant from Dept of Orthopaedic Surgery about their grants from the hospital research pool & how it’s moving their research understanding MSK injuries forward 💪

Achilles tendinopathy is a common condition affecting the Achilles tendon, leading to diminished Achilles tendinopathy quality of life and impaired work productivity. https://www.nature.c... #AchillesTendinopathy

This morning meeting was presented by Prof. Romain Barres, now at @univcotedazur.bsky.social on “Epigenetic rewiring of skeletal muscle after exercise training”! Studies discussed: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... and www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Prof. Michael Kjær opens the @matrixbiologie.bsky.social German-Nordic Joint #ECMatrix meeting #MatrixNexus2025 with a talk on Collagen in the Soft Musculoskeletal Tissue: Relation to Mechanical Loading #TeamCollagen

Out in this month's issue of Aging Cell. Motor neurons do better in the presence of primary human muscle cells from older exercisers vs non-exercisers. 🙏to @lundbeckfonden.bsky.social for the Ascending Investigator grant 4 years ago to see this work through doi.org/10.1111/acel...

This morning’s department meeting is from Prof. Kristoffer Barfod from the Unit of Sports Traumatology talking about Sports Orthopedics, Research and Coopertation and collaborations with the ISMC! 🤝

This morning’s department meeting is being presented by Asta Skovsgaard Eriksen, who did her masters project and a 6mo research assistance stay with Monika Bayer. She will talk about 3D in vitro loading models to investigate FAP differentiation with muscle strain injuries.

Congratulations to Ann Damgaard who just submitted her PhD thesis! 🥳🍾 Time to break out the mini bubbles! #teamtendon

A special seminar from an old friend of the institute, @kevinmurachphd.bsky.social! “Skeletal muscle epigenetics of exercise and aging” - a tour of his career and tips for early career researchers #myoblue

The second paper from Mads Bloch-Ibenfeldt's PhD is now online! 🦴🏋️‍♀️ "Heavy resistance training provides short-term benefits on bone formation in well-functioning older adults" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congratulations to Kenneth Mertz for placing 2nd in the Sports Congress oral presentation competition! 👏🏆🥈 #Sportskongres2025

Elevate Your Expertise: Measuring Muscle- and Aerobic Capacity Happy to once again host the PhD course, "Skeletal Muscle Performance in Basic and Applied Exercise Studies – in Health, Aging, and Disease." Sign up at: phdcourses.ku.dk/DetailKursus... @ismcopenhagen.bsky.social #myoblue

Christian Hoegsbjerg, @abigailmackey1.bsky.social @ismcopenhagen.bsky.social and colleagues profile muscle fibre types at the myotendinous junction. Highlight: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Today @annesofieagergaard.bsky.social & Julie Rydahl present at Sports Congress session “Treatment of chronic patella and Achilles tendinopathy in athletes” while CJ Boraxbekk presents “The what & how cognitive training will improve rehab for athletes” in a large symposium 🤩 #sportskongres2025

Yesterday's Sports Congress large symposium "Muscle strains: Basic and clinical aspects of prevention and rehabilitation" featuring @abigailmackey1.bsky.social and Monika Bayer in a packed auditorium! #Sportskongres2025

The study, Effect of human myoblasts on tenogenic progression in 2D and 3D culture models by visiting postdoc researcher Yoshifumi Tsuchiya, now a principal investigator at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan is out in @journalofanatomy.bsky.social ! 🥳

Interesting special seminar from Yuka Tsukahara, MD, PhD, Associate Professor at University of Iowa, Department of Family and Community Medicine on Over-Training Syndrome and how it is associated with injuries and illnesses and the gender bias in sports medicine.