Research Grants

The 2026 AANA Research Grant submission site is now open!

 

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Deadline for Submission: Wednesday, October 22.

 

AANA distributes grants for clinical or basic science research in the field of arthroscopic surgery or disorders amenable to arthroscopic treatment. The funding pool will award up to $200,000. AANA plans to fund one project at $100,000 (preference for a multi-center trial) and additional projects at $50,000 and $25,000 for seed or pilot studies. Final award amounts may vary based on need and quality.

 

The criteria for evaluation are:

  • Scientific Validity
  • Feasibility
  • Clinical Relevance
  • Ability to Complete

  • Arthroscopic meniscectomy vs. meniscus repair

  • MPFL repair/reconstruction vs. physical therapy

  • Bankart + remplissage vs. bone block procedure

  • And more!

  • ACL repair and ACL augmentation
  • Osteoarthritis after ACL injury and surgery
  • Psychological resilience and surgical outcomes
  • Sleep disturbance and musculoskeletal pathology
  • Hip FAI Outcomes and Predicators of Outcome
  • Arthroscopic labral reconstruction (hip)
  • Shoulder bone loss management
  • Rotator cuff patch/bioinductive augmentation
  • Knee ALL or LET augmentation
  • Biologics, cell and injection therapies for: osteoarthritis, soft tissue pathology and as an adjunct to surgery
  • Innovations in surgical and nonsurgical interventions to accelerate recovery and healing
  • Interventions that leverage patient-reported outcomes and health measures to better assess operative and nonoperative treatment
  • Efforts to advance biologic, cell and injection therapies to augment surgical treatment or to avoid long-term sequela of injuries
  • Projects that provide comparative evaluations of surgical treatment variables
  • Preclinical investigations to provide foundational efforts for future studies

Review the Submission Guidelines (PDF) and Frequently Asked Questions (PDF).

 

View past recipients of AANA's research grant program.

 

Any questions or requests can be directed to AANA Research and Data Analyst Pablo Palafox-Castillo, M.S.: pablo@aana.org.

 

The AANA Research Grant is funded in part by the AANA Education Foundation thanks to generous donations from individuals and corporations, learn more here.

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