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Grants & Awards

Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation

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Grants Available Information:

Interested investigators who wish to obtain funding may download applications and find deadline information and grant and award descriptions at OREF's Web site, www.oref.org.  Please contact Carmen Metoyer, grants secretary, with any questions via e-mail at metoyer@oref.org  or by calling (847) 384-4351.

Through OREF, patrons contributed nearly $2 million to specialty societies. With its total 2003 donations, in 2004 OREF will fund 134 grants and awards totaling $3.4 million. OREF-funded research enhances clinical care, which leads to improved health, increased activity and a better quality of life for patients. Since 1955, OREF has awarded more than 1,900 grants totaling more than $55.7 million.

OREF provides researchers with the seed money they need to begin their projects. Since 1955 more than 30 percent of the orthopaedic investigators who received grants and awards from OREF used data garnered from their OREF-supported research to earn funding from larger organizations, including the National Institutes of Health.

Click here to find out more about the grants at OREF website.