ORTHOPAEDIC RESEARCH UK — grant history
Latest income
£1.4m
Grants listed (FY2025)
22
Listed grants total
£985k
Accounts grants total
£1.3m
listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2025 accounts
Application guidance — from the funder’s own website
- Deadlines: Deadlines vary by specific funding opportunity, ranging from November 2025 to June 2026. For example, the 'BSSH/ORUK Hand Research Fellowship' has a deadline of 16/06/2026, while the 'ORUK/Daphne Jackson fellowship' closed on 03/11/2025.
What this funder supports
Causes funded
- Education/training
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Where grantees operate
- Throughout England And Wales
- Birmingham City
- Cardiff
Grants made, per its accounts filings
| Recipient | Year | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Imperial College London | FY2025 | £125k | MSK Innovation Accelerator Programme 2024-25 |
| Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | FY2025 | £110k | Total hip arthroplasty versus hemiarthroplasty for treating hip fracture: benefits, risks, and trends in use in England using electronic health records |
| South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | FY2025 | £110k | JPF: Improving outcomes in revision knee replacements |
| University of Oxford | FY2025 | £109k | Molecular Analysis and Phenotyping of Prosthetic Joint Infections (MAP-PJI) to inform AI-enhanced biomarker discovery |
| University of Newcastle upon Tyne | FY2025 | £109k | Identification of novel drug synergy for modulation of endochondral ossification (EO) using a combinatorial approach |
| University of Aberdeen | FY2025 | £102k | Establishing the feasibility of real-world surveillance of orthopaedic devices using routinely collected data |
| Royal College of Surgeons of England | FY2025 | £72k | Innovation: MSK Walled Garden |
| Epsom & St. Helier University Hospital | FY2025 | £68k | Defining the quality and quantity of stromal vascular fraction (SVF): a feasibility and pilot study to determine the effect of harvest site, local anaesthetic with adrenaline and the method of cell isolation |
| University of St Andrews | FY2025 | £55k | JPF: Use of a Scattered Light Integrated Collector (SLIC) for point of care testing to detect bacteria in fluid samples from native and prosthetic joint infections of the hip |
| University of Oxford | FY2025 | £54k | Artificial Intelligence and Radiomics to better identify and manage patients with femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) |
| Wallswork | FY2025 | £33k | Development of anti-cancer and bone regenerative minimally invasive implantable biomaterials for skeletal metastases and primary bone tumour therapy |
| Imperial College London | FY2025 | £32k | Research Prizes |
| Cardiff and Vale University Local Health Board | FY2025 | £30k | Local JPF: Use of Machine Learning in predicting progression of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis |
| University of Bath | FY2025 | £15k | Community Impact Project: RATLab |
| University College London Hospital | FY2025 | £13k | JPF: Femoroacetabular impingement and Hip Osteoarthritis: Identifying New Treatment Targets |
| University of Bath | FY2025 | £13k | Bunions Think Tank |
| University of Cambridge | FY2025 | £8k | JPF: Mesenchymal stromal cells in cartilage regeneration: defining the immunomodulatory characteristics on macrophage populations |
| University of Edinburgh | FY2025 | £1k | Project underspend |
| University of Bath | FY2025 | £1k | Project underspend |
| University of Edinburgh | FY2025 | £-6k | Project underspend |
| University of Bath | FY2025 | £-30k | Project underspend |
| University of Edinburgh | FY2025 | £-37k | Project underspend |
| Medtech | FY2024 | £125k | JPF - MSK Accelerator Programme, supporting early career researchers translate their early-stage MedTech innovations |
| University of Birmingham | FY2024 | £105k | ECRF - torque visuo-motor feedback training: a new way to manage patella tendinopathy |
| Northumbria University | FY2024 | £105k | ECRF - development and feasibility of a digital health intervention to encourage exercise maintenance after falls prevention exercise programmes end |
| University of Reading | FY2024 | £100k | JPF - machine learning-enabled decision support system to improve early detection and referral of rheumatic and MSK diseases |
| Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) | FY2024 | £99k | JPF - the effect of mental health on knee replacement outcomes |
| University of Manchester | FY2024 | £56k | JPF - investigating the biomechanical and functional outcomes of autologous chondrocyte implantation |
| British Hip Society | FY2024 | £55k | JPF - day case hip replacement in the NHS: a registry-based national cohort study |
| Keele University | FY2024 | £55k | JPF - big data analyses of the long-term benefits of knee cartilage surgery |
| QMUL | FY2024 | £50k | ECRF - establishing the feasibility of real-world surveillance of orthopaedic devices using routinely collected data |
| University of Cambridge | FY2024 | £50k | JPF - a precision health approach to osteoarthritis |
| Cardiff University | FY2024 | £47k | IF - identifying objective measures of sex-specific pain in humans that can be used diagnostically to target treatment |
| University of Oxford | FY2024 | £45k | IF - improving wrist injury pathways |
| University of Exeter | FY2024 | £38k | IF - developing a core outcome set for studies of patients sustaining periprosthetic femoral fractures |
| British Orthopaedic Association (BOA) | FY2024 | £33k | JPF - mesenchymal stromal cells in cartilage regeneration |
| Uni Hospitals of Leicester | FY2024 | £30k | JPF - surgical treatment of pathological posterior medial meniscal extrusion |
| Aston University | FY2024 | £30k | JPF - modelling of the spinal cord for greater understanding of aetiology and management of compressive spinal cord pathology |
| Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh | FY2024 | £23k | IF - development of a diagnostic protocol to aid the investigation and management of posterior malleolus ankle fractures |
| BOA | FY2024 | £17k | JPF - can a novel machine learning algorithm for analysis of pelvic radiographs improve the prediction of hip displacement in cerebral palsy? |
| Seed Funding Prizes | FY2024 | £5k | Seed Funding Prizes |
| Newcastle University | FY2024 | £-2k | project underspend (see note below) |
| University of Nottingham | FY2024 | £-3k | project underspend (see note below) |
| University of Edinburgh | FY2024 | £-4k | project underspend (see note below) |
| University of Bristol | FY2024 | £-14k | project underspend (see note below) |
| SWLEOCUB | FY2024 | £-17k | project underspend (see note below) |
| University College London | FY2023 | £110k | ECRF - MRI assessment of reinnervated muscle for an ibuprofen trial |
| University of Oxford | FY2023 | £110k | ECRF - reduction of ‘non-specific’ anterior knee pain after total knee replacements by the diagnosis of patella mal-tracking using a novel ultrasound method in the clinic |
| Manchester Metropolitan University | FY2023 | £108k | ECRF - development of a 3D ultrasound imaging technique with auto-segmentation |
| *Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust | FY2023 | £55k | JPF - using an AI system to predict outcomes for surgical patients* |
| King's College Hospital London | FY2023 | £50k | IF - does small fibre neuropathy predict the development and progression of Charcot neuroarthropathy bone and joint destruction (a pilot study) |
| *Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust | FY2023 | £50k | IF - virtual reality plus sensory feedback for the management of chronic musculoskeletal pain in adults* |
| *Staffordshire University | FY2023 | £48k | IF - evidence based guidelines for the optimal design of rigid ankle-foot orthosis* |
| Newcastle Upon Tyne NHS Foundation Trust | FY2023 | £33k | JPF - development of patient cell lines to investigate the pathophysiology of osteogenesis imperfecta and the mechanotransduction of these cells during mechanical strain |
| *Queen Mary University of London | FY2023 | £30k | IF - defining the pro-nociceptive role of neutrophils in chronic widespread pain* |
| University of Cambridge | FY2023 | £30k | JPF - femoroacetabular impingement and hip osteoarthritis: identifying new treatment targets |
| *Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust | FY2023 | £28k | JPF - study of patients undergoing primary hip and knee replacement in the United Kingdom* |
| University College London | FY2023 | £-354 | project underspend (see note below) |
| Newcastle University | FY2023 | £-507 | project underspend (see note below) |
| Newcastle University | FY2022 | £110k | ECRF - optimising outcomes after patellofemoral joint replacements |
| University of East Anglia | FY2022 | £109k | IF - using microbubbles to deliver local treatments in fracture non-union |
| University of East Anglia | FY2022 | £108k | ECRF - a theranostic for bone cancers |
| Imperial College London | FY2022 | £102k | ECRF - open-source finite element ankle model for in-silico assessment of treatment |
| Nottingham University | FY2022 | £98k | IF - Dupytren's disease and MMP-14 |
| South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre/Epsom | FY2022 | £50k | JPF - research fellowship - epidemiology of infection following hip fracture surgery |
| University of Bath | FY2022 | £50k | ECRF - effect of exercise on patients with low back pain |
| University of Oxford | FY2022 | £50k | IF - machine learning to detect and predict loosening of the femoral component of an uncemented total hip replacement |
| Newcastle University | FY2022 | £35k | JPF - can statins reduce inflammatory response to orthopaedic biomaterials |
| Southampton University | FY2022 | £35k | ECRF - anterior shoulder dislocations/glenohumeral joint osteoarthritis |
| Queen Mary, University of London | FY2022 | £30k | JPF - predicting mortality in major trauma using an AI risk prediction model |
| project underspend (see note below) | FY2022 | £-212 | project underspend (see note below) |
| project underspend (see note below) | FY2022 | £-12k | project underspend (see note below) |