The ORS Innovation Committee will serve as a hub for orthopaedic clinical translation and the commercialization process of early-stage ideas to provide a home for innovation within the field of orthopaedics.

The objectives of the ORS Innovation Committee include:

  • Provide a forum for the committee of researchers, industry members, clinicians, entrepreneurs, investors, consultants early career investigators who are experienced or interested in commercialization
  • Mentorship
  • Develop educational and networking opportunities that will provide knowledge and perspective around the various aspects of design, commercialization, and translation
  • Access to industry connections
  • Create an ecosystem where ORS can provide resources and expertise to support innovation within the field of orthopaedics

Innovation Committee Leadership

  • Lara Silverman, PhD, Chair
  • Suzanne Tabbaa, PhD
  • Chelsea Bahney, PhD
  • Evan Goldberg, PhD
  • Francis Hornicek, MD, PhD
  • Thomas Kean, PhD
  • Ata Kiapour, PhD
  • Neharika Bhadouria

ORS 2024 Annual Meeting

Have a Great Idea? What’s Next? Learn the Basics of Taking an Idea to a Commercial Product and Resources at the ORS

Objectives:

  • Provide an overview of the Innovation Committee and Business Innovation Competition
  • Learn the nuts and bolts for starting a company
  • Provide an overview of the start-up roadmap
  • Learn how to effectively communicate your technology at various stages

Organizers: 

ORS Innovation Committee

Roland Herzog, PhD
Committee member, ORS Innovation Committee
Head of Technology Transfer
AO Foundation 

Farshid Guilak, PhD
Committee member, ORS Innovation Committee
Washington University at Saint Louis   

Suzanne Tabbaa, PhD
Chair, ORS Innovation Committee
SymplexBio Consulting
University of California, San Francisco

Speaker:

Starting a Company and Selling Your Story—Keys to Success on the Way to Market
Nicholas Pachuda, DPM
Chief Operating Officer
Peptilogics

The following programs, offered during the . These programs were Co-organized by the ORS Industry Engagement and Innovation Committee and the ORS Commercialization Network are complimentary to view after completing the registration form.

Organizers: Jeff Bischoff, PhD and Robert Hastings, PE, ORS Industry Engagement Committee 

Much contemporary translational research entails collaboration between different sectors – academic investigators, industry researchers, clinicians.  When the translational research involves new technologies, navigating through the intellectual property interests of the constituent parties can be daunting, and in some cases disruptive to the advancement of the research into the clinic.  The goal of this session is to engage a panel of legal representatives and investigators who will provide basic knowledge and practical strategies for pro-actively addressing IP within translational research programs.

  • What is considered IP?
  • What is the IP of an academic investigator, and what is the property of the institution?
  • How is IP properly assigned if it is the outcome of a research collaboration?
  • How is ownership of IP impacted by federal or private funding streams?
  • How should consideration of IP impact strategies for securing research funding?

Organizers: Vishal Deshmukh, PhD and Yifei Dai, PhD, ORS Industry Engagement Committee

This workshop aims to prepare emerging/next generation investigators with fundamentals and forward-looking views regarding conducting high quality orthopedic related clinical research. Attendees will learn the design and conduct of clinical trials under Good Clinical Practice (GCP), associated scientific and regulatory principles, trial and site management, as well as statistical analysis of the trial data. Latest game-changing features of modern clinical trials, enabled by the advancements in digital technology, Artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) will be discussed regarding future advancing of the clinical trials.

The faculties also will share their expert experiences and insights on conducting clinical trials under various roles (trial designer, regulatory body, study operator/manager, collaborator, and data scientist) and perspectives (clinical leadership vs researchers, surgeon vs academia vs industry).

This workshop provides ORS investigators the needed fundamentals and exciting novel research skills to further advance the ORS goal of developing musculoskeletal discovery and research to improve health.

Organizers: Lara Silverman, PhD, Suzanne Tabbaa, PhD, and Scott Bruder, MD, PhD, ORS Industry Engagement Committee

This session is the sixth in a series, continuing an open discussion with the FDA which was started at the Industry Connect session in 2016 (Orlando) and has continued annually since then.  The series is focused on presentations and discussion of timely regulatory topics relevant to orthopaedic product development. The session this year will cover existing regulations around Human Cells, Tissues, and Cellular and Tissue-Based Products (HCT/Ps), compliance, and provide insights into upcoming FDA changes around these regulations. Presenters include expert regulatory consultants and the FDA.

Organizer: Lara Silverman, PhD, ORS Industry Engagement Committee

You’ve successfully identified a promising new orthopedic product or treatment. How do you manufacture it so that it can be actually tested in human patients? In this session, we will review the basics of how to make your product suitable for human use. Speakers will outline the key considerations and processes for fabricating medical devices and manufacturing biologics/cell therapies for early stage clinical use. Topics will include the use of Contract Manufacturing Organizations (CMOs), adherence to appropriate regulatory standards, and common pitfalls to avoid when engaging in early-stage manufacturing for human clinical use.

Organizers: Commercialization & Innovation Group 

Moderators: Nicholas Pachuda, Pure Medtech Advisors; Chelsea Bahney, PhD;  Zach Working, MD

Identifying meaningful unmet need is one of the most critical steps to in validating that your ideas have market potential. For healthcare innovation that requires understanding the clinical need, target patient population/procedure, the regulatory pathway, market competitors, and possibly even reimbursement potential. In this session we host a discussion with a surgeon-entrepreneur, strategic marketing business expert and kickstart-style investor to understand how they successfully uncover, evaluate and prioritize the unmet needs that ultimately create actionable insights for companies.

Featured Speakers:

  • Danny P. Goel, MD. CEO-Founder at Precision OS Technology
  • David Anshen. Senior Consultant at Market Edge
  • Neil Littman. CEO-Founder at BIOVERGE

There is no registration fee to view the The Innovation & Commercialization Sessions.