Currently Funded Studies
Following it a listing of our active, funded research within the department.
Clinical Trials
- Tracking of Functional Outcomes and Patient Satisfaction with a Wearable Smart Brace Following Total Knee Arthroplasty A Prospective Randomized Trial
- Prot #121416-01: Medacta GMK Sphere® Medial-Pivot, Cruciate Substituting Multicenter, Post-market Outcomes Study
- Prot 1006 An Assessment of P 15L Bone Graft in Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion with Instrumentation
- Prot# CT-17-001:Safety and Eff Prot# CT-17-001:Safety and Effectiveness of Bio2 Vitrium® Cervical Cage in Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion. A Randomized, Controlled, Non-inferiority, Pivotal Study.
- Prot# CP-010: Prospective Evaluation on Lumbar Discectomy with Additional Implantation of an Annular Closure Device in Patients with Large Postsurgical Annular Defects for Prevention of Lumbar Disc Reherniation
- Reducing Post-Operative Opioid Prescriptions in Orthopaedic Surgery
Federally Funded
- 3-D printed hyperelastic bone composites for bone regeneration and spine fusion
- Supramolecular nanofibers for recombinant growth factor-free spine fusion
- Brain Pathophysiology of Osteoarthritis Pain
Foundation Funded
- A BMP-2-binding nanofiber—Demineralized bone matrix composite scaffold as a bone graft substitute for spinal fusion
- Elucidating sex-based differences in bone regenerative response for spinal fusion
- A multimodal nanofiber scaffold to improve bone healing in smokers
Industry Funded
- Rat Paraspinal Neuroinflammation Model-to Study Host Response to rhPDGF-BB Combined with a Beta-tricalcium Phosphate (b-TCP)/Bovine Collagen Matrix
- A Mechanistic and Pre-clinical Assessment of BioRestore™ Bioactive Glass as a Synthetic Bone Graft Substitute for Osteoinduction and Spine Fusion
- A Nanofiber Scaffold as an Improved Carrier for Ultra Low-dose RhBMP-2 Delivery
Department-Funded Resident Research
Our department-funding allows our residents to explore research opportunities throughout their training.
2019
- The Debonding Resistance of Antibiotic Cement-Coated Intramedullary Nails
- Evaluation of patellar resurfacing in patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty
- Long Term Outcomes of Acetabuloplasty for Femoroacetabular Impingement
- Pedicle Breach Bioskills Module for Spine Resident Education
- Outcomes of tibial shaft fractures resulting from low energy GSWs– a two institution retrospective review
- Comparing clinical outcomes between transosseous patellar suture fixation versus suture anchor repair in the treatment of quadriceps tendon rupture
- Hip Aspiration in the setting of Total Hip Arthroplasty – A Quality Improvement Project