Research

Research interests

The fundamental objective of professor Villemure researches is to improve our understanding of the mechanical regulation of growth and development of bone tissues in order to exploit this knowledge for the orthopedic treatment of progressive musculoskeletal pathologies affecting infants and adolescents in clinics. To do so, she and her group are investigating and overlaping three complementary avenues of research: I) Experimental tissue and cell mechanics (to characterize stress-strain relationships of growth plates, their cells and certain cellular components in response to loading); II) Mechanotransduction (to establish in vivo the metabolic responses of growing bones to loading and optimized growth modulation parameters); and III) Design of minimally invasive treatments (design and characterize in vivo new inteventions based on optimized growth modulation for the treatment of progressive pediatric skeletal deformities).

• Mechanobiology
• Experimental tissue and cell mechanics
• Design
• Implant
• Mechanical growth modulation
• Growth plate
• Biomechanical modeling

Research unit(s)

• Canada Research Chair in Mechanobiology of the Pediatric Musculoskeletal System, Responsible
• Biomedical Science and Technologies Research Centre (GRSTB), member

NSERC subjects

• 1900 BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
• 1903 Biomechanics
• 2001  Materials structure, properties and testing
• 2107  Modelling, simulation and finite element methods