# ORS Tendon Section 2021 Conference: Guiding the Future

> **NIH NIH R13** · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · 2020 · $23,000

## Abstract

Project Summary
Tendinopathy, tendon ruptures, and ligament injuries are common and debilitating musculoskeletal conditions.
The urgency for improvement in diagnosis and treatment of these conditions results in a growing need for
enhancement of tendon and ligament research. Increased research activity in this space resulted in a need to
develop leadership, structures, and activities to define and stimulate this research community. The Tendon
Research Section within the Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS) was formed to achieve this goal and high
impact satellite conferences were organized for exchange of cutting edge findings in tendon research and as a
key platform to foster the development of the tendon research community. One critical ORS Tendon Section
goal that was identified is the need to develop guidelines or even standards for specific aspects of tendon and
ligament research to increase scientific rigor and reproducibility in the field. Therefore, we will focus the proposed
ORS Tendon Section satellite meeting on recent advancements and, most importantly, to define guidelines for
conducting research in our field. These topic areas were identified by the PIs of the proposal and the tendon
section leadership. Therefore, discussions on specific topics will be stimulated with breakout sessions and
hands-on demonstrations. Through these discussions, we will establish guidelines for these focus areas. We will
then publish these guidelines in a special issue of the Journal of Orthopaedic Research to direct the field moving
forward. In addition to these guideline discussions, we will include scientific podium and poster sessions for
trainees to present their research, mentoring sessions for the trainees to interact with PIs, and a discussion of
future ORS Tendon Section goals. We anticipate that this meeting will have a lasting effect on the tendon and
ligament field by promoting rigor and reproducibility in our research and cultivating new collaborations.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10070725
- **Project number:** 1R13AR078067-01
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
- **Principal Investigator:** Nathaniel A. Dyment
- **Activity code:** R13 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $23,000
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2020-08-15 → 2023-01-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10070725

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10070725, ORS Tendon Section 2021 Conference: Guiding the Future (1R13AR078067-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10070725. Licensed CC0.

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