RESEARCH

The Arthritis Foundation is the largest non-profit, private funder of arthritis research in the world, and has provided more than $400 million in research grants to more than 2,200 researchers since its inception in 1948.

The Foundation is committed to supporting the highest quality research that will lead to the prevention, control and cure of arthritis and related diseases.

Congratulations to 2012 Arthritis Foundation research grant recipients from the Pacific Region:

Suzanne Kafaja, M.D.
University of California, Los Angeles
Clinical to Research Transition Award

and

Zejin Zhu, M.D.
University of California, Los Angeles
Postdoctoral Fellowship Award

To learn about the latest Research advances, visit the Research section of arthritis.org. You can help fund research for a cure! For more information, contact Vickie Fung, Chief Program Officer, at vfung@arthritis.org.

ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION AWARDS NEW RESEARCH GRANT

Congratulations to Dominik Haudenschild, Ph.D., of the University of California, Davis, who received an Arthritis Foundation Innovative Research grant of $100,000 for his work on osteoarthritis.

Dr. Haudenschild is investigating treatment of post-traumatic osteoarthritis (PTOA) in the young athletic population. He hypothesizes that certain types of sports-related joint injuries lead to osteoarthritis,and that PTOA begins at the cellular level just after occurrence of the joint injury. Current clinical care does nothing at the time of injury to prevent the onset of PTOA, when the optimal time frame for effective therapeutic intervention may be immediately after the joint injury. The Arthritis Foundation’s research grant will support Dr. Haudenschild’s exploration of a treatment strategy that will delay or prevent the onset of post-traumatic osteoarthritis.

We applaud Dr. Haudenschild’s ground-breaking research which will lead to a potential reduction in the future burden of osteoarthritis for today’s young and active population.