University lecturer; Honorary Orthopaedic Consultant

Email: wk280@cam.ac.uk

Research interests

Wasim Khan is a University Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon. He has a research interest in stem cell sources, characterisation, differentiation and clinical applications. His clinical interest is in Knee injuries and disease, especially cartilage and meniscal defects. He aims to identify better ways of treating cartilage and meniscal lesions in the knee and developing cell-based treatments.

Wasim was awarded a MRC Clinical Research Training Fellowship to complete his PhD looking at chondrogenesis in MSCs under the supervision of Professor Tim Hardingham at the University of Manchester. He was awarded the Syme Medal by the Royal College of Surgeons. Wasim then completed an Orthopaedic Academic Clinical Training programme at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore and University College London, where he was a Lecturer from 2010-14 under the supervision of Professor David Marsh and Professor Tim Briggs. Wasim has completed national (Bristol and Cardiff) and international (USA, Europe and Australia) clinical and research fellowships. He has authored over 300 papers, 50 chapters and 5 books.

Key publications

Yaghmour K et al (2019). Single-Stage Revision Surgery in Infected Total Knee Arthroplasty: A PRISMA Systematic Review. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 8(2). E174.

Ranmuthu C et al (2019). Are the biological and biomechanical properties of meniscal scaffolds reflected in clinical practice? A systematic review of the literature. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 20(3). E632.

Hodgson B et al (2018) The Regulation of Differentiation of Mesenchymal Stem-cells into Skeletal Muscle: A Look at Signalling Molecules Involved in Myogenesis. Current Stem Cell Research and Therapy. 13(5): 384-407.

Stace ET et al (2018) The use of novel electrospun scaffolds in musculoskeletal tissue engineering: a focus on the rotator cuff. Current Stem Cell Research and Therapy. 13(8): 619-631.

Full list of publications on Google Scholar

Areas of expertise

Knee, trauma, orthopaedics, cartilage, meniscus, stem cells, chondrocytes, chondrogenesis, tissue engineering