Johnny Huard

Dr. Johnny Huard, Chief Scientific Officer and Director of the Center for Regenerative Sports Medicine at the Steadman Philippon Research Institute (SPRI) in Vail, Colorado is a world-renowned scientist and the discoverer of Muscle Derived Stem Cells, with 25 years of experience. Before joining SPRI, Dr. Huard held several positions as distinguished Professor, Vice Chair for Research, Director in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Texas, and University of Pittsburgh. His research focuses on basic science and translational medicine for multiple disease conditions including: 1) DMD 2) Bone, Muscle and Cartilage repair/PTOA 3) Healthy Aging 4) Orthobiologics and 5) Stem cell biology. Dr. Huard has authored over 400 manuscripts in various high impact scientific journals including Nature Cell Biology, Nature Biotechnology, Journal of Cell Biology, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Cell Stem Cells, etc. Dr. Huard received over 87 awards including the Orthopaedic Society’s prestigious Kappa Delta Awards (in 2004 & 2018), AOSSM’s prestigious Cabaud memorial award and University of Pittsburgh’s Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award. Dr. Huard received 47 federal grant awards (NIH, DOD) and recent DOD and NIH RMIP grant award that includes 7-clinical trials. Currently Dr. Huard has nearly 38,700 google scholar citations with 105 h-index.