AOUK&I  Minor Research Grant Awards 2020

Major Project Grants

• Juan E Berner
  Quality of life after open extremity trauma (QUINTET): a prospective multi-centre international study
  £8,500
• Paul Baker
  COMPOSE: characteristics, outcomes and management of periprosthetic fractures
  £6,000
• Benjamin Dean
  Assessing variation in patient care pathways for suspected scaphoid fractures in the United Kingdom
  £9,000
• Professor Xavier Griffin
  James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership - Major trauma
  £20,000
• James Hadfield
  Establishing the feasibility of unified lower limb injury cohort data collection utilising an open fracture injury database pilot
  £8,000
• Adeel Ikram
  Muscle phenotyping in frail older patients having hip surgery following fracture
  £7,600
• Justin Wormald
  Ecological momentary computerised adaptive testing (EMCAT): a novel technique to measure the impact of hand trauma
  £9,000
• J Masters
  Randomised controlled
  £1,000

Minor Grants

• Muhammed Alanie
  Feasibility evaluation for a trial of tourniquet use in lower limb fracture
  £1,420
• Christopher Bretherton
  Rehabilitation after ankle fracture treatment (RAAFT): Facilitating safe weight bearing after ankle fracture
  £4,000
• Samantha Downie
  Retrospective assessment of effect of gender on operative anatomy in surgical trainees
  £3,000
• Amar Rangan
  FAMOUS-C19 (Fracture Assessment, Management and Outcomes in Upper Limb Study during Covid-19
  £4,000
• Mustafa Rashid
  Investigating the impact on 1:1 scale 3D-printed anatomic models in pre-operative planning of complex periarticular fractures on surgeon perceptions
  £4,000
• Mohsen Raza
  WITS, FFPOM, RIO
  £300

AOUK&I Research Grant Awards 2019

• Sandeep Deshmukh - £8801
  Developing a core outcome set for hand fractures and joint injuries in adults.
• Jun Wei Lim - £9992
  What pH level equates to impending cell death in progressive muscle ischaemia and why are some muscles more susceptible than others to ischaemia?
• Martin Siebachmeyer - £8868
  The PEAS Study: Paediatric fractures: Artificial intelligence in diagnosis study

AOUK&I Research Grant Awards 2016

Major Grants

• Simon Matthew Graham- Is human immunodeficiency virus an independent risk factor for surgical site infection in open tibia fractures managed by reamed locked nails? - awarded £9998.00

Project Grants

• Mr Ben Marson - Identification of biomarkers for osteomyelitis - awarded £5000
• Mr Gavin Walters - Characterising the growth factor profile of fracture haematoma in humans - awarded £4130.00
• Miss Samantha Downie - Prevalence of intimate partner violence (PIV) in orthopaedic trauma patients - awarded £817.97

AOUK&I Research Grant Awards 2015

Major Grants

• Dr I Pountos - Characterizing the phenotype of the highly proliferative mesenchymal stem cells fraction
• Mr M Panteli - Does Dkk-1 play an important role in the development of non-unions?
• Donald Hansom - The effects on nanopattern surface technology and targeted metabolic therapies on orthopaedic implant related infections
• Alex Trompeter - Do multiple eccentric screws in the LCP model increase the ability to generate fracture site compressive force, even if the first screws are not loose.
• Alex Trompeter - A biomechanial study of proposed alternative techniques to fiving transverse non-comminuted patella fractures
• Sara Dorman - Management of lateral condyle fractures in children, a protocol for the development of a core outcome set
• Mustafa Rashid - The development and validation of wearable technology for enhancing assessment of trauma rehabilitation outcomes.
• Katie Rollins & D J Bryson - Body composition, sarcopenia and myosteatosis and survival in polytraumatised patients

Pathway to Portfolio Grant (one off in 2015)

• Katie Young - Androgen precursor dehydroepiandrosterone pharmacokinetics in trauma (ADaPT)

AOUK&I Research Prize

• I Pountos - MSCs isolates result in a morphological and functional heterogeneous population with variable self-renewal and differentiation capacities. The aim of this study was to analyse whether MSC subpopulations have different mitogenic and osteogenic potential.

AOUK&I Research Grant Awards 2014

Grants

• Mr Michalis Panteli - Gene expression of MCSs harvester from bone marrow aspirate and fracture non-union tissue. A pilot study. - awarded £8623.00
• Dr Ippokratis Pountos - Phenotypic and genetic characteristics of a high proliferative fraction of mesenchymal stem cells - awarded £9347.00
• Katie Young - A dehydroepiandrosterone and pharmacokinetics in trauma study (ADaPT). This was awarded £10,000.
• Dr Tosan Okoro - Trauma assessment and follow-up with integration of modern communication devices (TRAFIC) - a pilot study. This was awarded £9657.77
• Lucy Silvester - Trauma rehabilitation. This was awarded £10,000

Project Grants

• Edward Spurrier - Clinical outcome following blast injury in the spine. This was awarded £1035.

AOUK&I Research Grant Awards 2013

Grants

• Ben Hickey - The effect of active toe movement (AToM) on venous thromboembolism and calf pump function in patients treated with lower limb cast immobilisation – awarded £10,000.
• Salam Ismael - Comparison fatigue burnout and coping mechanisms among orthopaedic and trauma nursing staff in three different environments: a multi-centre study – awarded £5,120.
• Tim Coughlin - Early outcomes and cost effectiveness of physiotherapy self directed therapy and advice sheets following conservatively managed distal radial fractures – awarded £9,000.
• Juan de Dios Robinson - A biomechanical analysis of fixation of Vancouver B1 fractures augmented with the 3.5mm attachment locking plate – awarded £9965.00.

Project Grants

• Major John Breeze - A numerical model to simulate the passage of explosively propelled fractures through the neck – awarded £5000. Download research report
• Ryan Trickett - The minimally clinically important difference in distal radial fracture – setting the standard – awarded £4,900. Download research report

AOUK&I Research Grant Awards 2012

Grants

• Eleanor Davidson - Cartilage damage following tibial plateau fractures – awarded £7,000. Download research report
• Dashan Angadi - Biomechanical analysis of femoral fracture fixation using expert adolescent lateral femoral system – awarded £8860.00
• Gareth Roberts - Computational engineering in the developmental of clinically relevant finate element analysis model of the proximal femur in fracture surgery – awarded £6,000

Project Grants

• Hiren Divecha - Biomechanical study of the effect of Pauwel's angle and method of internal fixation in undisplaced intra-capsular neck of femur fractures – awarded £5000.
• Sush Ramakrishna/Louise Nordin - Stability of different external fixator constructs – a comparison – awarded £1634.52
• Mustafa Rashid - Configuration of fracture fixation with a proximal femoral periprosthetic plate – how many screws, cortices and cables? A biomechanical study – awarded £5,000.

AOUK&I Research Grant Awards 2011

• Benjamin Ollivere - Directed early joint motion post ankle fracture fixation. A randomised controlled trial – awarded £9900.00
• T.J. Bonner - Lower limb injuries from under vehicle explosions – awarded £10,000.
• HB Tan - The influence of traumatic brain injury on the dynamics of growth factor release following trauma – awarded £10,000.
• Alex Trompeter - Correlation of open tibial fracture union rates with vascular injury" – awarded £10,000. Download research report