In his memory, Western has opened an equity-based graduate scholarship. Please consider supporting his final initiative if you are able: www.westernconnect.ca/beier ; thank you for all the time you spent and laughs you shared with him. We love and miss him so much already. - The Beiers

Huge congrats! So well deserved!

I am heading there this afternoon too. Also using Alaska😀

My friend Mick Jurynec at Utah also independently identified a human Sirt5 coding mutation that is linked to familial OA. We will follow up on this work using a mouse model carrying this mutant allele to further study its functions.

We used a combination of systemic and cartilage conditional KO mouse models to demonstrate that Sirt5-MaK is an important regulator for chondrocyte metabolism and OA development during obesity.