Awards

ROSEMONT, Ill. (February 12, 2021)—The 2021 Kappa Delta Elizabeth Winston Lanier Award was presented to Farshid Guilak, PhD and his co-authors, Bradley T. Estes, PhD, and Franklin T. Moutos, PhD, for their research and development of technology to grow bioartificial cartilage using a patient’s own donor cells and seeding them on a novel scaffold that can be molded to match the shape of a patient’s joint.…

ROSEMONT, Ill. (February 12, 2021)—Cato T. Laurencin, MD, PhD, was named the 2021 Kappa Delta Ann Doner Vaughn Award recipient for his 30 years of scientific research in musculoskeletal regenerative engineering, the field which he founded and brought to the forefront of translational medicine.…

ROSEMONT, Ill. (February 12, 2021)—The 2021 Kappa Delta Young Investigator Award was presented to Lin Han, PhD, for research on the structure and function of cartilage extracellular matrix (ECM) and its impact on tissue regeneration and disease evolution in osteoarthritis (OA).…

ROSEMONT, Ill. (February 12, 2021)—Barry P. Boden, MD, received the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation (OREF) Clinical Research Award, which recognizes outstanding clinical research related to musculoskeletal disease or injury.

For over 20 years, Dr. Boden has studied the epidemiology and causes of severe sports injuries to develop preventive strategies, with a focus on anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) ruptures and catastrophic sports injuries.…