Prof. Edward Schwarz

Prof. Edward M. Schwarz received his BS in Biology from the Worcester Polytech Institute in 1988 and earned his MA and PhD in Immunology from the Einstein College of Medicine in 1990 and 1993, respectively. He is the Burton professor of Orthopaedics and director of the Center for Musculoskeletal Research at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, New York. He serves as director of NIH P50 CORT “Translating the Osteoimmunology of Bone Infection”, Director of NIH P30 “The University of Rochester Resource-Based Center for Musculoskeletal Biology and Medicine”, and Co-Director of NIH CTSA-fund Pilot Studies in the University of Rochester Clinical & Translational Sciences Institute. Dr. Schwarz is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Orthopaedic Research, Chief Science Officer of Telephus Biomedical, LLC, and Chief Product Officer of BioVinc, LLC. He was awarded the Kappa Delta Young Investigator Award from the Orthopaedic Research Society in 2005 and the J.R. Neff Award from the Musculoskeletal Research Foundation in 2007.