Rate My Professor Peter Muir

Peter Muir is the Melita Grunow Family Professor of Companion Animal Health and a Professor in the Department of Surgical Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine. He also holds an affiliate appointment as Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering. Muir earned his BVSc from the University of Bristol in 1985, PhD from the University of Bristol in 1990, and MVetClinStud from the University of Sydney in 1992. He is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons in Small Animal Surgery (1995), Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Surgeons (1996), and Fellow of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (2018) for meritorious contributions to knowledge. He has served on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1999 and is Co-Director of the Comparative Orthopaedic and Genetics Research Laboratory.

Muir's research specializes in skeletal adaptation to mechanical loading, pathogenesis of stress fractures including condylar fractures in Thoroughbred racehorses, genomic dissection of orthopaedic traits in companion animals such as cranial cruciate ligament rupture, laryngeal paralysis, degenerative suspensory ligament desmitis, and fibrotic myopathy, long bone fracture repair, and clinical trials for canine osteoarthritis using regenerative therapies like platelet-rich plasma and stem cells. His laboratory has developed polygenic risk scores and genetic tests for cruciate ligament rupture risk in dogs and advanced standing CT imaging for equine limbs through Asto CT LLC, which he founded. Key publications include 'Biologically enhanced GWAS provides further evidence for candidate loci and discovers novel loci that influence risk of ACL rupture in the dog model' (Frontiers in Genetics, 2021), 'Multivariate genome-wide association analysis identifies novel and relevant variants associated with anterior cruciate ligament rupture risk in the dog model' (BMC Genetics, 2018), 'Effect of weight reduction on clinical signs of lameness in dogs with hip osteoarthritis' (Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 2000), and 'Evaluation of agreement between numerical rating scales, visual analogue scoring scales, and force plate gait analysis in dogs' (Veterinary Surgery, 2007). Muir has received the American Veterinary Medical Foundation/American Kennel Club Career Achievement Award in Canine Research and Faculty Distinguished Teaching Awards. He trains graduate students in Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Computation and Informatics in Biology and Medicine, and Genomic Sciences programs.