Our final graphical abstract before our  CHANGE MSCA Doctoral Network  annual meeting next week is by  Omar Abdallah  who is studying the interaction between ageing and collagen IV in disease at  University of Glasgow  under supervision of Prof  Tom Van Agtmael . Please contact Omar if you would like to find out more!

Happy New Year from  CHANGE MSCA Doctoral Network ! Our next graphical abstract is by  Roufaida Bouchenafa , who is investigating kinesin involvement in skeletal disease and ageing at  Newcastle University , supervised by Dr  Katarzyna (Kasia) Piróg . Please message Roufaida if you'd like to know more!

This week's abstract comes from  Gianluca Ricci  who is investigating the role of primary cilia in connective tissue disease and ageing with Dr  Jean Philippe ANNEREAU  at  Medetia Pharmaceuticals . Please drop Gianluca a message if you'd like to know more!

Our graphical abstract this week is by  João Pinheiro  who is engineering an ex vivo model of post-traumatic osteoarthritis (PTOA) at  LifeTec Group , supervised by Dr  Linda Kock . If you would like to know more about this project, please drop  João  a line.

Our next abstract  comes from  Alessia Brancolini  who is investigating the potential of MSC-EVs as therapeutic agents for connective tissue disorders with Prof  Johannes Grillari  and Prof  Regina Grillari  at  Evercyte GmbH . Please contact Alessia if you'd like to know more.

Our next abstract is by Shivashakthi Shivaraman  who is researching the collagen-VI related myopathies using zebrafish models at École normale supérieure de Lyon  with Prof Florence Ruggiero . Please contact Shivashakthi if you'd like to know more!

Our abstract this week comes from  Chantal Fayad  who is researching the role of FGF signalling in hypochondroplasia and ageing at the  Institut Imagine  with Prof  Laurence Legeai-Mallet . Please contact Chantal if you'd like to know more!

Our next CHANGE MSCA Doctoral Network  graphical abstract is by Giulio Gatto , a PhD candidate at the Goethe University Frankfurt . Giulio is investigating osteoarthritis-associated molecular changes in cartilage extracellular matrix under the supervision of Prof Frank Zaucke . Please message Giulio if you'd like to know more.

The third  CHANGE MSCA Doctoral Network  graphical abstract comes from  Michal Tamáš  who is researching skeletal muscle regeneration and ageing under the supervision of Prof  Paolo Bonaldo  at the  Università degli Studi di Padova . If you'd like to know more about Michal's project, please drop him a line!

Our second  CHANGE MSCA Doctoral Network  abstract is by  Asifa Khan , who is working with Prof  Antonio Rossi  at the  Università di Pavia  studying proteoglycan undersulfation in extracellular matrix homeostasis and musculoskeletal ageing. Please contact Asifa if you would like to know more.

As our  CHANGE MSCA Doctoral Network  enters its final year and our DCs are getting ready to write up their theses, we have asked them to prepare graphical abstracts of their projects. We will post one a week here. Our first abstract is by  Wendy Pérez Franco  who is working with Prof  Antonella Forlino  at  Università di Pavia . Wendy is investigating the age-related extra-skeletal complications in osteogenesis imperfecta (OI). Drop her a message if you'd like to know more!

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