Dr. Raftery earned her BSc in Anatomy and Physiology and her MSc in Regenerative Medicine at the University of Galway. She then joined the Tissue Engineering Research Group at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin to undertake her PhD research where she developed gene-activated scaffolds for orthopaedic tissue repair. For this work, she received the New Investigator Recognition Award from the Orthopaedic Research Society 2017, and was a finalist in the Student and Young Investigator Awards at the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Society meeting also in 2017. In 2018 she was awarded the prestigious Marie Sklodowska Curie Individual Fellowship to study cartilage developmental biology at the Craft lab in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital and the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School. Her work on using stem cell models and transcriptomics to study cartilage development and response to injury was awarded prizes at the Gordon Research Conference in Cartilage Biology and Pathology in 2019 and again in 2023. 

In late 2023, Rosanne returned to Ireland, taking a lectureship position in the Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience at University College Cork before settling in the Department of Physiology in 2025. Her lab combines her multidisciplinary expertise in stem cell and developmental biology, bioengineering, gene delivery, and physiology to investigate the molecular mechanisms of human cartilage development and homeostasis in health, aging, and disease. They aim to decipher the cellular changes that occur in the immediate aftermath of injury with the goal of developing novel treatments for cartilage injury, preventing osteoarthritis development.

Developmental biology, stem cell biology, the musculoskeletal system, orthopedic biology, genetics, gene delivery, tissue engineering

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