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Fellowship Opportunities

Program Details

The BMRC Postdoctoral/Resident Fellowship award is for one year and in the amount of $20,000. The BMRC Junior Faculty Fellowship award is for one year and in the amount of $30,000. All recipients must be active members of the Orthopaedic Research Society. Funding is to support generation of preliminary data for subsequent larger grant applications. Allowable expenses include salary (up to 20% total of award), research supplies, animals, equipment, professional travel or publication fees. No indirect costs are permitted.

All 2025 BMRC fellows will be required to attend and present their work at the BMRC Research Symposium in Pittsburgh, PA in September 2026. Travel to the BMRC Research Symposium is not included with this award and should be included in the proposal budget if necessary.

Fellowship Funding

$20,000

  • Postdoctoral Scholars
  • Medical Residents

$30,000

  • Junior Faculty Members

4-6 BMRC/ORS Fellowships are will be available in 2025.

All recipients must be active ORS members.

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Application Details

Eligibilty Criteria

  • Postdoctoral scholars/residents
    Must have completed a PhD, MD or DO degree within 5 years of the application date (approved institutional leaves of absence excluded).
  • Junior faculty (research assistant professor, assistant professor or equivalent)
    Must be within 5 years of starting their first faculty position (approved institutional leaves of absence excluded).
  • All applicants
    • Should also have not received grants totaling more than $75,000/year in direct research support.
    • Must verify that they have legal work status in the United States and that all research will be performed in laboratories located in the United States.

We are dedicated to improving diversity, equity, inclusion in musculoskeletal research. Investigators who are underrepresented in medicine or STEM fields are encouraged to apply.

Key Dates for Your Application

  • April 1, 2025, 11:59 p.m. EST
    Letter of Intent (LOI) due
  • May 20, 2025
    Notification of selection for full application
  • July 15, 2025
    Full grant application is due
  • September 3, 2025
    Award announcement
  • October 1, 2025
    Start date for the award
  • September 30, 2026
    End date of award

Information for Your Letter of Intent

The LOI will be submitted on the ORS website and will require the following combined into one PDF document:

Cover page

  • Title of application
  • Principal investigator name, academic position, institution
  • Co-investigator(s) name, role, institution

Description of research project
(1 page limit, Arial font size 11pt, ½” margin)

  • Significance, innovation, specific aims, and hypothesis

Impact statement
(300 word limit)

  • Describe how this project reflects the mission of the BMRC.
  • Describe how this award will impact your career and lead to preliminary data for larger future funding/research studies.

Biosketch

Full Grant Applications Should Include:

Cover page

  • Title of application
  • Principal investigator name, academic position, institution
  • Co-investigator(s) name, role, institution

Letter of support

  • From your department chair stating that necessary support (resources, salary, protected time) will be provided.

Abstract of research project (1 page limit)

  • Include significance and innovation, specific aims, approach. Describe how this project reflects the mission of the BMRC.

Proposal ( 4 pages max excluding references, Arial font size 11pt, ½” margin)

  • Specific aims (1 page)
  • Significance, innovation, (preliminary studies, if any), approach, a timeline (3 pages)
  • References (not included in 4 page limit)
  • Budget & budget justification – Allowable expenses include salary (up to 20% total of award), research supplies, animals, equipment, professional travel or publication fees. No indirect costs are permitted. Cost sharing is permitted with other funding, but please indicate other support in budget.

Biosketches

Research Subjects

  • Studies involving human subjects or vertebrate animals must include protection plan as appropriate.