Research Recipients
Research Award Details
2006 - POSNA Research Grant
Transplanting Autologous Bone Marrow Derived Stromal Osteoblasts into an Experimental Animal Model of Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease
Grant Recipient: Joseph Vacanti, MD
Co-Investigators: Brian Grottkau, MD
- Institution:
- Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
- Presentations & Publications:
- Presentations: 1. Grottkau, BE: Podium Paper Presentation: Transplantation of Stem Cells in an Experimental Perthes Model Resulted in Maintenance of Femoral Head Sphericity, AAOS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, February 2012. Grottkau, BE: Paper Presentation: Transplantation of Stem Cells in an Experimental Perthes Model Resulted in Maintenance of Femoral Head Sphericity, POSNA Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, May 2012. Publications: Publications: A manuscript has been submitted, June 2014.
- Further Funding:
- The seed money from the grant resulted in promising results that helped obtain a Peabody Foundation Grant of approximately $100,000 in 2008 (I believe) and a Franchi Fund grant of approximately $450,000 between 2006 and 2013 to carry out related tissue engineering research.