ORS/ISFR 19th Biennial Meeting (Orthopaedic Research Society/International Section for Fracture Repair)

About This Grant

PROJECT SUMMARY The 2026 biennial meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society-International Section for Fracture Repair is entitled: ORS-ISFR 19th Biennial Meeting: Advancing Bone Repair – From Basic Science to Clinical Solutions. The overall objective of this two-day meeting is to promote state-of-the-art research and scientific discourse on topics related to bone repair, with an emphasis on the ongoing need for collaboration between basic scientists, engineers and clinicians. We are committed to an interactive conference that is welcoming for trainees and early-stage investigators, with opportunities to present research, moderate sessions and network. The meeting program has been designed based on the success of past meetings, but with changes based on attendee feedback from the prior meeting. The meeting will address the most challenging problems in bone repair, with a focus on recent advances. Each session will address topics of relevance to the research priorities of the NIH. Three sessions on Day 1 will focus on basic and translational science: a) Advanced model systems and -omics in bone healing; b) Microenvironmental cues and cell metabolism in bone regeneration; and c) Innervation and angiogenesis in bone repair. Day 2 will have three clinically relevant sessions: a) Early detection of failed healing; b) Immune system and fracture – from infection to healing; c) The immune-bone axis in polytrauma and healing. There is often an information gap between what front-line clinicians treating fractures recognize as important problems, and problems that basic scientists perceive as most important. This ISFR conference aims to bridge this gap and accomplish three objectives: 1) provide a forum for clinicians to learn about the latest in basic and translational research, 2) expose basic scientists to the clinical issues that are most pressing in orthopaedic trauma, and 3) foster collaborations between researchers and clinician-scientists. Multidisciplinary approaches are essential to address challenging clinical problems. The ORS-ISFR 19th Biennial Meeting will advance understanding of fracture healing across basic, translational, and clinical perspectives.