Chondrometrics GmbH is pleased to announce that its MRI-based software device for articular tissue analysis has been listed on INDICATE, a platform provided by Micron, Inc. in Japan. This listing marks an important step in making Chondrometrics’ quantitative imaging technology more visible to companies, clinical researchers, and academic groups in Japan — one of the … Continued
From June 27 to July 1, 2026, Chondrometrics hosted its 6th formal Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) meeting in Freilassing, the company’s headquarters. The meeting took place back-to-back with the International Workshop on Osteoarthritis Imaging (IWOAI) 2026 and brought together Chondrometrics’ SAB members, invited guests, and the internal team for days of scientific exchange, strategic discussion, … Continued
From June 23-26, 2026, the osteoarthritis imaging community met under the theme “Tissues: Linking Them All Together”. The 20th Workshop brought the workshop back close to its roots in Southeast Germany. When the first IWOAI was held in Ainring in 2007, few could have imagined that the workshop would continue for two decades. Selected impressions … Continued
Chondrometrics GmbH was pleased to welcome a delegation of osteoarthritis researchers from the Southern Medical University in Guangzhou (China) to its office in Freilassing, Bavaria. The visit took place in connection with the 20th International Workshop on Osteoarthritis Imaging, held in Munich from June 23–26, 2026. The delegation visited Chondrometrics on June 22 to exchange … Continued
Women are more frequently affected by knee osteoarthritis than men, but the biological and structural reasons for this difference are still not fully understood. Two recent publications involving Chondrometrics contribute new evidence to this question by focusing on sex-related differences in MRI knee cartilage thickness, radiographic joint space width (JSW), imaging of other articular tissues, … Continued
The EULAR European Congress of Rheumatology, this year held from 3–6 June 2026 at the ExCeL conference center in London (Carousel pp. 1 & 2), is one of the major international platforms for exchange between clinicians, researchers, patient representatives, industry, and regulatory stakeholders in rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases. This year’s congress again provided an excellent … Continued
We were pleased to contribute to a recent webinar organized by the Translational Research Committee of the ICRS – International Cartilage Regeneration & Joint Preservation Society, dedicated to the topic of “Quantitative Cartilage Imaging”. The webinar brought together perspectives from basic science, imaging physics, and clinical research, with a focus on how quantitative imaging can … Continued
The International Workshop on Osteoarthritis Imaging (IWOAI) has become one of the most distinctive scientific meetings in the osteoarthritis imaging community. What began in 2007 in the small pre-Alpine Bavarian village of Ainring, with Felix Eckstein as the first-time organizer, has grown into a truly international workshop. The meeting is held every year since then … Continued
Every April, a large part of the musculoskeletal research community gathers. What started more than two decades ago – as a focused meetings on osteoporosis – has evolved into today’s @World Congress on Osteoporosis, Osteoarthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases (WCO-IOF-ESCEO). The 2025 meeting in Rome gathered about 4000 onsite attendees, and about the same number of … Continued
Heartfelt congratulations to Frank Roemer and co-authors, including four from the Chondrometrics team, for winning the “Best Clinical Science Paper Award” of articles published in „Cartilage” in 2025. Almost at the same time, Frank was announced to win the prestigious Clinical Research Award of the Osteoarthritis Research Society (OARSI), granted at the World Congress in … Continued