 So we decided to take a break from the hotel and all of the presentations and come over and check out what's actually going on in the lab here at SPRI. And I am here with Dr. Sidhir Ravari. Did I say that okay? Yes, you're right. Thank you. And he is a senior scientist here at the SPRI lab. And thank you so much for chatting with me. Thank you so much. So I just wanted to ask you a little bit about what is it like working with Dr. Hewart? It's a fabulous experience because, I mean, we've been working in Pittsburgh for a long time. We research projects and then as a working environment and also kind of a very friendly, very high-spirited, very energetic combination. And we enjoy every moment of working together. Do you feel that collaborative spirit here? Absolutely. I mean, Dr. Hewart and I were in Pittsburgh and we have a kind of working relationship and then that's continued for, and then we bring it here and then we're continuing now. So what are some of the things that you're working on currently? Right now, we work on like several research projects and we focus on stem cells and then PRP, the plate-to-rich plasma and bone marrow aspect concentrate for orthopedic implications and also for anti-aging studies. My expertise from AliPoster stem cells and Dr. Hewart comes from muscle-derived stem cell expertise. So there's a light combination that what we have, we bring together both expertise and then we're looking into using stem cells and clinical translation for orthopedic complications and also for anti-aging studies. How we can't be able to make an old person new, but we can always make an old person to live better from that point from they are. So that's our focus and also to make a work on the clinical translation. What we do in the lab, so that comes to the like a bedside to the bedside. So that's a clinical translation that we focus on up here. And how does something like the Vail Scientific Summit influence the work being done right here at SPRI? Oh, that's incredible even because the Vail Scientific Summit itself says that engaging the bright minds in the country, in the world and bringing them together. And obviously, I mean it's the brightest minds coming together and the cutting edge science to get coming together. And that's a great opportunity for us to collaborate and then bring kind of great discoveries and great findings ultimately to help the patients. I mean for the patient care. And this kind of networking is possible only from these kind of meetings like Vail Scientific Summit and that results and that already resulted in many collaborations in the past and then now we're working on this scientific summit will emerge as a great event to bring minds together, people together, work together and the discoveries together and the accomplishments together as a teamwork. I mean although we're people from different parts of the institute country, but they are like one team together. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Well it wouldn't be a trip to spry if we didn't stop by the Bioemotion Lab, it's the most fun room in the building really. And so I am here with Dr. Scott Tashman, he is the director of biomedical engineering and thank you so much for chatting with me for a few moments. Oh happy to. So I was just curious, for people that might not know, can you tell us a little bit about what the Bioemotion Lab is? Well if you think about orthopedic care and what the goal is, is to get people back to function to moving. And so the way I look at this is if you really want to understand how well you're doing with orthopedic care, you have to look at people moving and that's what this lab's all about. And so when people come in here, I've also often seen sensors on their bodies, can you explain a little bit about what that's about? Right, well so we want to understand how their body's moving, how if it's a knee injury, we want to understand how their knee is moving, how much flexion they're getting during different activities. We also care about how the other joints in their body are working together. So for instance, if you're doing a baseball swing, you're using every part of your body from your ankles all the way up through your shoulders. And to understand how an injury has affected someone's ability to perform a motion or how well a treatment's done getting them back to performing that motion, you have to look at the whole body motion. So we have a system where we can put small reflective markers on someone's body and then we have an elaborate system of cameras. We have 18 cameras that track the motion of those markers in 3D. And if we put enough markers on the body, we can track the motion of all the segments, your foot, your thigh, your trunk, your pelvis and look and see how the joints are functioning and how someone's moving. So for instance, if someone's had a knee injury and they're coming back, is their injured knee working the same as their contralateral knee? Or are they compensating in some way? Are they shifting, overloading one joint to protect another one? So we combine not only that measurement of motion, we have sensors in the floor that record all the forces, both in an open area in the lab where we can do jumping or baseball swings, those sorts of things, or on a treadmill where people can do running uphill, downhill or walking. The key for us is finding the activity that's most important for the person that's being treated. So if it's a high performance athlete, we're going to do very demanding activities in the lab, jump landings or running uphill at 15 miles an hour or whatever it is that is important for that athlete. If it's someone who's more concerned with getting back to activities of daily living, we might be looking at someone walking or climbing a set of stairs or picking up an object. So really it's focusing on the movement needs of the patient, the individual that we're testing. And this lab is really set up so that we can test just about any motion you can imagine in here. Wow, that's incredible. And so how does something like the Vale Scientific Summit impact the work that you're doing here in the Biomotion Lab? Well the Scientific Summit is really addressing a subset of the types of things that we look at here, but a very important subset. So we look at studies that are maybe just over the outcome of a conventional surgical procedure, maybe a joint replacement or ACL reconstruction. This summit is bringing, has brought some of the best minds in the world together to look at really advanced therapies, regenerative medicine approaches, reducing impacts of aging. These kinds of biologically driven therapies that Dr. Heard is really focused on here in the Center for Regenerative Medicine. The where I see my work and this lab fitting into that is that ultimately you need to be able to evaluate how effective these therapies are. And this lab is really very well equipped and positioned to serve that function so that as you start developing therapies, it's one thing to say, yeah, we think we have a great therapy, patients seem happy, but you really want to understand how those tissues, how those treatments are impacting function of patients. And this is really the ultimate way to assess that. Sounds like there are some exciting times ahead. Thank you so much. Well, thank you, great talking with you.