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NIH Grants OrthoCare $750K
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David Boone, CP, MPH, PhD |
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OrthoCare Innovations, headquartered in Washington
DC, received notification on September 29 from the National
Institutes of Health (NIH) that it has been awarded a $750,000
Phase II competitive research award through the Small Business
Innovative Research (SBIR) program. This award is co-funded by the
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development (NICHD) and the National Center on Minority Health and
Health Disparities (NCMHD). The award was made by the National
Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research (NCMRR), a center within
the National Institute of Child and Human Development (NICHD).
The focus of this award, the Robotic Prosthetic Alignment
System, will be to build on previously funded work in the area of
prosthetic alignment to develop a novel, self-aligning device
component. "This work offers the potential for a universally
applicable component that will dramatically alter the functionality
of lower-limb prosthetics," said OrthoCare in a press release.
David Boone, CP, MPH, PhD, OrthoCare's chief technology officer,
will serve as the principal investigator on this initiative.
OrthoCare will also benefit from technical and engineering input,
certain intellectual-property assets, and financial investment in
the project from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee. 
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