Prof. Martin Stoddart, FRSB, FIOR is department head, responsible for the Regenerative Orthopaedics Program at the AO Research Institute Davos (ARI), Switzerland.

His interests include the use of patient derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) for bone and cartilage repair, in particular the role of mechanoregulation during the initiation of MSC chondrogenesis. This has led to an increased understanding of chondrogenesis under complex physiological loads in the absence of exogenous growth factors. He completed his bachelors in Biology in 1995 and M.Phil in 1996 at the University of Aberystwyth, Wales, UK.

He completed his doctoral thesis in Oncology (University of Nottingham, UK) in 1999. In 2000 he moved to the Laboratory for experimental cartilage research, Zürich, Switzerland, before moving to ARI in 2005. He is Professor at the Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg, Germany and Honorary Professor at Keele University, UK. He is a fellow member of ICRS and in 2016 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (FRSB).

He was recipient of the 2020 TERMIS-EU mid-term Career Award and was induced as a Fellow of the International Combined Orthopeadic Research Societies (FIOR) in 2022. He is the author of over 150 scientific papers and book chapters with a H-index of 44.