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Young Investigators Grant
The Young Investigator Grant provides awards in amounts of up to $40,000 aimed at
providing "seed money," or start-up funds, for pilot projects. The principal investigator
must be an early career orthopaedic surgeon, fellow, or resident with interests
in sports medicine research. Any investigative team seeking such a grant must include
at least one member of AOSSM in good standing.
All applications must be submitted online.
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for grant guidelines and forms to begin the application process.
Pre-reviews: In an effort to improve the quality
and competitiveness of submissions, the AOSSM Research Committee will pre-review
and critique applications prior to the final application deadline. This pre-review
is STRONGLY RECOMMENDED but not required. It is anticipated that by participating
in the pre-review process, the applicant's chances for funding will improve. The
pre-review will focus on: 1) significance of proposed research, 2) scientific quality,
3) statistical methods, 4) realistic nature of goals, 5) long term value of results,
and 6) pilot data. Use the online submitter for the pre-review. You must complete
an online application by August 15th in order to receive a pre-review.
Note: Final submission deadline: December 1st
before midnight. Please contact Bart Mann at the Society office
with any questions.
Sandy Kirkley Clinical Outcome Research Grant
The late Dr. Sandy Kirkley was a passionate advocate for well-conducted randomized
controlled trials to evaluate the efficacy of interventions in orthopaedic sports
medicine. It was her strong contention that the field must "rise to the challenge
of designing and implementing clinical trials that provide the same level of evidence
in support of treatments as our nonsurgical colleagues demand." It is one of her
intellectual legacies, then, that our profession in general and the Society specifically
embrace and support outcome research that has the potential to inform evidence-based
practice.
To honor the memory and spirit of Dr. Kirkley, AOSSM has established a small grant
of $20,000 that would provide start-up, "seed," or supplemental funding for an outcome
research project or pilot study. One grant will be awarded each year and eligible
applicants are not restricted to newer investigators as is the case for the Young
Investigator Grants.
All applications must be submitted online.
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grant guidelines and forms to begin the application process..
Pre-reviews for the Kirkley
grant are also available as described above for the Young Investigator Grants. To
have your application pre-reviewed, please complete a submission
online by August 15th.
Career Development Award
AOSSM offers a $50,000 per year supplement grant to sports medicine
orthopaedic surgeons who receive a Career Development Award (K Award)
from NIH. The purpose of this grant is to facilitate the research careers of
orthopaedic surgeons who have completed training in sports medicine and
who have or have accepted a faculty position at an academic institution. Although
the grant may be most attractive to researchers early in their careers, the award
is open to individuals regardless of time since training. Applicants must first obtain
an NIH Career Development (K) Award and have an active award to be eligible.
To apply for the supplement, please send a copy of your letter of award from
NIH along with your NIH Biosketch and the Career Development Plan
from your NIH application, to Bart Mann at bart@aossm.org. Deadline
for submission is July 1st each year.
For more information, contact Bart Mann, bart@aossm.org
or at the AOSSM office, 847-292-4900.
AOSSM/Genzyme Osteoarthritis Grants
AOSSM, in partnership with Genzyme Biosurgery, is pleased to announce a new research grant program to fund investigations related to
Early Osteoarthritis and/or Prevention of OA Progression. This grant program reflects growing recognition of the importance of osteoarthritis
within sports medicine and orthopaedics. The program is an outgrowth of the Society’s conference on post-joint injury OA held in December 2008
and it underscores Genzyme’s long standing commitment to osteoarthritis research and therapy. Two separate grants will be offered. One will provide
$50,000 per year renewable, subject to annual progress review, for three years ($150,000 total) to support a clinical research study. The second
will be a one-time award of $50,000 to support a lab/basic science project to separate investigators over successive three years.
Proposed studies need not relate specifically to sports injuries and should also have broad applicability to OA in the general population.
Projects involving viscosupplementation will not be considered for either grant. Applications will be reviewed for their potential impact on the
field, the quality of study approach, and ability of investigator and site(s) to conduct and complete the proposed research. The Principal
Investigator on all applications must be an AOSSM member who has completed his or her training. It is expected that grantees will submit
the results from their funded study to AOSSM for podium presentation and to AJSM for publication. The submission deadline for both the clinical
and basic science grants is August 1st, 2010. Award notices will be made on or after October 15th with a start date of January 1, 2011. Inquires
can be directed to Bart Mann, AOSSM Director of Research.
Note: All applications must be submitted online.
In order to apply for an AOSSM research grant, please view the guidelines and download the application, the biosketch forms, and continuation pages using the links below:
Complete all necessary pages and combine all documents/files into one PDF. (Adobe Acrobat, not Reader, will convert documents into PDFs.
If you do not have access to Acrobat, you can download a free trial at www.adobe.com
or visit http://www.grants.gov/agencies/software.jsp#3 for a listing of other
conversion software.) When you are ready to submit your grant, click on the link below:
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