TY - JOUR
T1 - The Relationship between OREF Grants and Future NIH Funding Success
AU - Hegde, Vishal
AU - Johansen, Daniel
AU - Park, Howard Y.
AU - Zoller, Stephen D.
AU - Hamad, Christopher
AU - Bernthal, Nicholas M.
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Background: The Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation (OREF) is the leading specialty-specific nongovernmental organization providing orthopaedic funding in the United States. As extramural research funding has become increasingly difficult to acquire, one mission of the OREF is to support investigators to generate data needed to secure larger extramural funding from agencies such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The objectives of this study were to evaluate the rate of translating OREF faculty-level grants into subsequent NIH funding and to determine if there are identifiable factors that increase the rate of converting an OREF grant into NIH funding.
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Bar graph showing the relationship of NIH funding and the subspecialty of OREF grant awardees. The number of NIH-funded awardees is compared with the total number of OREF grant recipients from each subspecialty.
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The Relationship Between OREF Grants and Future NIH Funding Success
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On the basis of our methodology, of the 121 individual OREF grant recipients since 1994, all 121 recipients were full-time Doctor of Medicine (MD) faculty serving in an academic orthopaedic surgery department. Of these 121 recipients, 27 faculty-level OREF awardees (22%) later received 31 NIH funding grants (Fig. 1-A). Of the 27 NIH awardees, 8 (30%) had an MD and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD). Of the remaining 94 OREF awardees who did not receive NIH finding, 7 (7%) had an MD and PhD. Thus, 53% (8 of 15) of the MD plus PhDs subsequently received NIH funding, and 18% (19 of 106) of the MDs subsequently received NIH funding. Five investigators received 2 different OREF awards. All 5 received a non-Career Development Grant followed by a Career Development Grant for cell biology basic science work. Two (40%) of these 5 awardees received a subsequent NIH award.
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Disclosure: One author of this study (N.M.B.) received a grant (Award Number 5K08AR069112-01) from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases of the National Institutes of Health. On the Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest forms, which are provided with the online version of the article, one or more of the authors checked “yes” to indicate that the author had a relevant financial relationship in the biomedical arena outside the submitted work (http://links.lww.com/JBJS/E310).
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Copyright © 2017 by The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Incorporated.
PY - 2017/8/6
Y1 - 2017/8/6
N2 - Background: The Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation (OREF) is the leading specialty-specific nongovernmental organization providing orthopaedic funding in the United States. As extramural research funding has become increasingly difficult to acquire, one mission of the OREF is to support investigators to generate data needed to secure larger extramural funding from agencies such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The objectives of this study were to evaluate the rate of translating OREF faculty-level grants into subsequent NIH funding and to determine if there are identifiable factors that increase the rate of converting an OREF grant into NIH funding. Methods: This is a retrospective review of OREF grants awarded to full-Time faculty orthopaedic surgeons between 1994 and 2014. Grants were analyzed on the basis of award type and were categorized as basic science, clinical, or epidemiological. Sex, individual scholarly productivity, and publication experience were evaluated. All awardees were assessed for subsequent NIH funding using the NIH RePORTER web site. Results: One hundred and twenty-six faculty-level OREF grants were awarded to 121 individuals. Twenty-seven OREF grant awardees (22%) received NIH funding at a mean of 6.3 years after OREF funding. Nineteen (46%) of 41 Career Development Grant winners later received NIH funding compared with 10 (12%) of 85 other award winners. OREF grants for basic science projects were awarded more often (58%) and were more than 4 times as likely to result in NIH funding than non-basic science projects (odds ratio, 4.70 [95% confidence interval, 1.66 to 13.33]; p = 0.0036). Faculty who later received NIH funding had higher scholarly productivity and publication experience (p < 0.05). Conclusions: The OREF grant awardee conversion rate of 22% and, particularly, the 46% for Career Development Grant winners compares favorably with the overall NIH funding success rate (18% in 2014). Faculty-level OREF grants appear to achieve their purpose of identifying and supporting researchers who aim to secure subsequent federal funding. Clinical Relevance: The goal of this study is to examine how successful faculty who have obtained OREF grants have been in securing NIH funding later in their careers. Although subsequent accrual of NIH funding is not the only goal of OREF funding, it can be used as an important benchmark to assess the development of orthopaedic clinicianscientists.
AB - Background: The Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation (OREF) is the leading specialty-specific nongovernmental organization providing orthopaedic funding in the United States. As extramural research funding has become increasingly difficult to acquire, one mission of the OREF is to support investigators to generate data needed to secure larger extramural funding from agencies such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The objectives of this study were to evaluate the rate of translating OREF faculty-level grants into subsequent NIH funding and to determine if there are identifiable factors that increase the rate of converting an OREF grant into NIH funding. Methods: This is a retrospective review of OREF grants awarded to full-Time faculty orthopaedic surgeons between 1994 and 2014. Grants were analyzed on the basis of award type and were categorized as basic science, clinical, or epidemiological. Sex, individual scholarly productivity, and publication experience were evaluated. All awardees were assessed for subsequent NIH funding using the NIH RePORTER web site. Results: One hundred and twenty-six faculty-level OREF grants were awarded to 121 individuals. Twenty-seven OREF grant awardees (22%) received NIH funding at a mean of 6.3 years after OREF funding. Nineteen (46%) of 41 Career Development Grant winners later received NIH funding compared with 10 (12%) of 85 other award winners. OREF grants for basic science projects were awarded more often (58%) and were more than 4 times as likely to result in NIH funding than non-basic science projects (odds ratio, 4.70 [95% confidence interval, 1.66 to 13.33]; p = 0.0036). Faculty who later received NIH funding had higher scholarly productivity and publication experience (p < 0.05). Conclusions: The OREF grant awardee conversion rate of 22% and, particularly, the 46% for Career Development Grant winners compares favorably with the overall NIH funding success rate (18% in 2014). Faculty-level OREF grants appear to achieve their purpose of identifying and supporting researchers who aim to secure subsequent federal funding. Clinical Relevance: The goal of this study is to examine how successful faculty who have obtained OREF grants have been in securing NIH funding later in their careers. Although subsequent accrual of NIH funding is not the only goal of OREF funding, it can be used as an important benchmark to assess the development of orthopaedic clinicianscientists.
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U2 - 10.2106/JBJS.16.01278
DO - 10.2106/JBJS.16.01278
M3 - Article
C2 - 28816904
AN - SCOPUS:85029557676
VL - 99
SP - e87
JO - Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - Series A
JF - Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - Series A
SN - 0021-9355
IS - 16
ER -