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NIH Grants Orthocare Innovations $750K

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 Innovations in a press release.

David Boone, CP, MHP, PhD, Orthocare Innovation's chief technology officer, will serve as the principal investigator on this initiative. Orthocare Innovations 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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