Funding Opportunities

This grant is to encourage and support collaborative exchanges between orthopaedic/musculoskeletal researchers at different institutions for which “the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.” The ORS Awards and Recognition Committee will make the determination of how many applicants will be funded and the total dollar amount awarded to each applicant. The maximum grant amount is $5,000 per grant.

Named for Adele L. Boskey, PhD, this award is annually given to a mid-career (between 10 and 20 years beyond their PhD, MD, DVM) ORS member in good standing who has made significant contributions to the mentorship of rising scientists, engineers, and/or clinician/scientists in the fields of orthopaedics and musculoskeletal science and engineering

The Women’s Leadership Forum (WLF) Award is given every year to recognize a woman biologist, clinician, or engineer who, throughout her professional lifetime, has made significant contributions to the understanding of the musculoskeletal system and musculoskeletal diseases and injuries. She will have also demonstrated outstanding leadership through service to the professional community and mentorship of colleagues and trainees

We invite research grant applications that utilize New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) and Non-Animal Technologies (NATs)—such as archived human joint tissues, organoids, tissue chips, advanced in vitro systems, computational and mathematical models, and non-invasive imaging techniques. When appropriately justified, applications may also incorporate combinations of these approaches with animal models, including genetically modified mouse models and underutilized large animal models, to investigate the biological mechanisms driving the initiation and progression of osteoarthritis (OA).

The Orthopaedic Reserach Society (ORS) and the Ruth Jackson Orthopaedic Society (RJOS) collaborate to promote and support young female investigators in field of orthopaedic research. Both organizations are aligned in their missions to promote women in orthopaedic research, science, and practice. This award offers $1,000 to cover travel expenses and free registration to the 2027 Annual Meetings of both societies for a young female orthopaedic researcher.

This award was established in 2009 by the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation (OREF) and ORS to honor an individual who has significantly contributed to the field, to the ORS, and the OREF through their outstanding scientific achievements and their commitment of time and service. Together, they will honor an individual with a long-standing, productive career in orthopaedic research

This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) invites applications for innovative research on the factors that cause human behaviors and the oral-systemic health impacts of those behaviors to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability among people with chronic conditions. Causal hypotheses may include biological, biopsychosocial, congenital, environmental, interpersonal, neurological, psychological, and comorbidity factors that individually, sequentially, or in combination trigger human behaviors and oral-systemic health outcomes, with impacts that may be direct or traceably distal. Applications that propose projects to develop or refine causal hypotheses also are encouraged.

To support UG3/UH3 phased, cooperative agreement research applications to plan and implement clinical trials within the mission of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)

The purpose of the NIDCR Dentist Scientist Career Transition Award for Intramural Investigators (K22) program is to facilitate transition of highly qualified dentists from NIH Intramural postdoctoral research positions to extramural academic tenure-track or equivalent faculty positions at eligible institutions. The award will provide support for two years of mentored postdoctoral research training in the NIH Intramural Research Program, and three years of independent research funding at the extramural institution.