Research Grants & Awards
The O&P Foundation provides funding to support clinically relevant research in orthotics and prosthetics (O&P).
Early Career Research Grant
The Early Career Research Grants is intended to help early career investigators initiate lines of research that will be competitive for larger funding opportunities through funding agencies such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), or the Department of Defense (DOD).
Applications closed for 2024
Mentored Pilot Research Grant
The Mentored Pilot Research Grant is intended to help trainees (e.g., masters/doctoral students, orthotics and prosthetics residents) or orthotics and prosthetics clinicians to complete a research project with the guidance of an experienced research mentor. Mentored Pilot Grant funds are intended to be used for the conduct of the proposed research project.
Applications closed for 2024
Microgrants
Details to come...
Applications open in Fall 2024
Conference Attendance Award
The O&P Foundation Conference Attendance Award supports current and past recipients of research grants through The O&P Foundation to travel and present their research at national conferences.
Application deadlines coming soon
ABC Resident Travel Award
The ABC Resident Travel Award supports prosthetics and orthotics residents' travel to the American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists (AAOP) Annual Meeting and Scientific Symposium so that they may present results of their National Commission on Orthotic and Prosthetic Education (NCOPE) Directed Study.
Applications open in Fall 2024