The American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine is taking applications for a grant to fund early osteoarthritis and/or OA progression prevention research, according to Philanthropy News Digest.
Here's what you should know:
1. AOSSM will award one $50,000 grant to support a clinical research study or a lab/basic science project.
2. The organization will give priority to research focused on:
- Characterizing early events in osteoarthritis and how joint injury might affect them
- Increased understanding of disease initiation and the factors driving disease
- Identifying specific acute injury mechanisms that could contribute to the increased likelihood of disease progression, providing a potential interventional target
- Optimizing treatment time courses to determine the validity of a mono or multi-therapeutic approach
- Evaluating epigenetics and its potential to delay degenerative disease post-injury through modulation of gene expression
- Evaluating new potential chondroprotective agents, with a concentration on agents/drugs with prior FDA approval or potentially fast approval
3. The project teams must include at least one AOSSM member in good standing.
4. Jan. 1, 2019 is the application deadline.