Research Updates

The Arthritis Foundation Western Pennsylvania Chapter believes research holds the key to tomorrow’s advances in preventing, controlling and curing arthritis and provides hope for a future free of arthritis pain for the 46 million men, women and children with doctor-diagnosed arthritis.

The chapter is committed to funding research locally and recently committed to fund a $100,000 local rheumatoid arthritis research grant. Click here to read more about this exciting project.

Additional chapter-funded research projects:

• Gender and Joint Replacement Outcomes; project conducted by Alyssa Majesko, MD.
• Evaluation of In Vivo Knee Kinematics after Medical Meniscus Root Tear; project conducted by Scott Tashman, Ph. D
• T Cell Exhaustion in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis; project conducted by Abbe de Vallejo, Ph. D
• The Impact of Donor Sex and Age on the Chondrogenesis of Bone Marrow Cells; project conducted by Karen Corsi, Ph. D

National Research Projects:

Nationally the Arthritis Foundation is the largest private nonprofit supporter of arthritis research in the world.

• Approximately $400 million contributed to research since 1948.
• Nearly $13 million distributed in the 2007 research year.
• Annually fund 200 to 300 researchers in 100 institutions nationwide.
• Click here to read more about national arthritis research.