Current Support
2006 - 2011 NIH K01 EB004347 (Principal Investigator): Enhanced tendon-to-bone healing ($564,511 total award)
2006 - 2011 NIH R01 AR033097 (Co-Investigator, PI: Richard Gelberman): Flexor tendon healing ($2,410,282 total award)
2007 - 2010 OREF Career Development Award (Co-Investigator, PI: Leesa Galatz): The role of the stress environment on formation of the tendon-bone insertion site- development and healing models ($225,000 total award)
2009 - 2011 NIH R21 AR055184 (Principal Investigator): Structure-function relationships at the tendon-to-bone insertion site ($418,000 total award)
2009 - 2014 NIH R01 AR055580 (Principal Investigator): Mechanobiology of rotator cuff development ($1,748,000 total award)
2009 - 2011 NASA 08-BionSTEP2-0033 (Principal Investigator): The effect of weightlessness on the tendon-to-bone insertion ($99,601 total award)
2009 - 2014 NSF CAREER 844607 (Principal Investigator): Functionally graded biologic materials- tissue engineering of the tendon-to-bone insertion ($400,000 total award)
Prior Support
2002 - 2003 NIH F32 AR049640 (Principal Investigator): Functional tissue engineering of tendon ($85,820 total award)
2005 - 2007 inSCOPE Orthopaedic Fellowship Award (Principal Investigator): The role of TGF-beta at the healing tendon-to-bone insertion site ($50,000 total award)
2006 - 2009 Washington University Center for Materials Innovation (Principal Investigator): Nanostructure of attachment of dissimilar composite biomaterials ($85,000 total award)
2007 - 2009 OREF Research Grant (Principal Investigator): Improving tendon-to-bone healing using novel biofactors ($100,000 total award)