Osteoarthritis (OA) affects 8.75 million people in the UK (Mobasheri & Batt 2016), places a considerable burden upon the economy (Woolf et al. 2012) and seriously impairs the quality of life of its sufferers (Hiligsmann et al. 2013).

The OATech Network+ was an EPSRC funded project which aimed to utilise the expertise of multidisciplinary network partners to:

Identify challenges and knowledge gaps.

Support and drive multidisciplinary collaborations in UK OA research.

Form the basis for high-level grant funding and publications.

Improve diagnosis, treatment and bring novel therapies to market.