ORS ISFR 3-Minute Research Pitch Competition
Wednesday, June 24, 2026
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Central
LIVE via Zoom
Participants will have three minutes to present their work using one slide about what they are working on and why it is important to the field of research bone regeneration, fracture repair, trauma or related. Following each three-minute presentation, two minutes are allowed for one question from the audience or judges. Presentations are meant to emphasize the impact of the work and should not be data heavy. Selected participants will be expected to present the summation of body of work from their graduate or post-graduate training completed over multiple years, not necessarily an individual project. The winner will be featured by the ISFR Communication Committee and will win up to $500 in prizes.
Submissions are now closed.
In 2017, the ORS ISFR initiated the first competition as part of our ORS ISFR Scientific Meeting.
Formerly known as the ORS ISFR Young Investigator 3-Minute Thesis Competition, ORS Student, Post-Graduate, and Early Career members working in the field bone regeneration, fracture repair, trauma or related were challenged to present the significance of their research in a compelling pitch to a panel of judges. This is an important communication skill and excellent way for scientists to relay our field’s research to the fellow research community and public.
3-Minute Research Pitch Examples
In case you are not familiar with the 3-minute style talks, here are a few examples:
Check out the 2025 winning pitch on YouTube by following the link below. ORS members can access full competition recordings from 2022 to 2025 exclusively in the LearnORS Video Library.
- Applicants must be members in good standing of both ORS Student (undergraduate student, graduate student, medical student or MD/PhD student), Post-Graduate (Post-Doc, Resident, or Fellow), or Early Career (assistant professor, instructor/lecturer – excluding clinicians/surgeons) member in good standing and ISFR member prior to the pitch abstract submission deadline.
- Participants in the pitch competition should be in their 3rd year or higher of a PhD program or have started their post-doctoral fellowship (academic or industry), residency, or clinical fellowship by the time of the competition.
- Abstracts submitted to the ORS 2026 Annual Meeting are allowed to be submitted for the pitch competition. However, applicants must not be a recipient of any 2026 ORS and/or ISFR award or previous ISFR related awards (i.e., ORS ISFR 3-Minute Research Pitch).
Abstracts will be accepted in graphical format (PDF only) that will be uploaded during the abstract submission process. A Graphical Abstract is a single, concise pictorial or graphical summary that provides an overview of your research or a significant aspect of your research.
Proposed research for presentation must be related in some way to bone biology, bone regeneration, fracture repair, trauma, or related.
Graphical Abstract Examples:
- Selected participants will be expected to present the summation of body of work from their graduate or post-graduate training completed over multiple years, not necessarily an individual project.
- Abstracts will be read and scored by three (3) independent judges who are either ORS ISFR Officers or Committee members.
- Judges will assess the abstracts based on the following criteria:
- Significance
- Impact on the field
- Rigor
- Relation to the ORS ISFR mission.
- Ideally, the 5 to 10 top scoring abstracts will be invited for presentation. However, in the event that scores are closely grouped for several high-quality abstracts, other factors to increase presenter diversity may be considered to make the final selections. These criteria may include diversity of topics, regions, institutions, or underrepresented groups.
- Applicants are expected to be notified of the selection to participate by June 12, 2026.
2025
Intrinsically disordered peptides (P2) and mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) simultaneously promote bone regeneration and modulate inflammation
Tony Baldini, BS, UCD
Smart, Bacteria-Triggered Antibiotic-Releasing Implant Coating for Post-Traumatic Bone Fractures
Feiyang Chen, PhD, UMMS
Salter Harris III and IV Medial Malleolus Fractures in Children < 10: Is This a Fracture of Necessity?
Jacob Kodra, BS, MCW
How Can We Heal Nonunion Fractures?
Leyi Chen, BS, WashU (Honorable Mention)
3D Spheroid Culture of Chondrocytes to Study the Interaction of Cells at the Chondro-Osseous Border of Enchondral Ossification
Elnaz Enderami, MS, UM
Investigating the Antibacterial Properties of Fibroadipogenic Progenitors and Their Role in Infection Control
Aboubacar Wague, BA, UCSF (2025 Winner)
Surgical Stress and Physiologic Reserve: A Novel Approach to Femur Fractures
Brandon Gettleman, MD, UCLA
Finite Element Modeling of Metastatic Femurs with Prophylactic Intramedullary Nail Fixation
Zachary Koroneos, BS, PSU
Shocking Revelations in Cryogelation: Sparking Musculoskeletal Regeneration
Aleyna La Croix, BS, Dartmouth (Honorable Mention)
2024
Thrombospondin 1 is Necessary for Proper Fracture Healing and Callus Formation
Christina Capobianco, University of Michigan
Post-Radiation Renovation: Re-building Stronger ‘Homes’ with Better Bones
Peter Bertone, Dartmouth
Circulating ApoE and its Impact on Fracture Healing in the Aged Population
Mingjian Huang, Duke University
A Hard Break: Exploring Novel Tools to Study Pain After Fracture
Daniel Lind, Steadman Philippon Research Institute
Gene Therapy for Osseous Nonunion
Erin McGlinch, Mayo Clinic
Electrically Stimulated MXene-Cryogel Scaffolds for Mineralization in Bone Defects
Sreejith Panicker, Washington University in St. Louis
Brewing Skele-gro on Using YAP Overexpressing Periosteal Stem Cells to Regrow Bones
Madhura Nijsure, University of Pennsylvania
2023
mRNA Loaded Mineral Coated Microparticles with Autologous Bone Marrow Aspirate Concentrate for Critical Size Bone Defect Healing
Joshua Choe, MS, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Fast-Tracking Aged Fracture Repair Research with a Progeria Mouse Model
Victoria Duke, BS, Steadman Philippon Research Institute
CXCR4: A Key Axis in Mediating IGF-1 Signaling in Fracture Repair
Alessandra Esposito, PhD, Rush University Medical Center
Image-Based Models Reveal the Dual Soft and Hard Biomechanics of Fracture Callus
Brendan Inglis, BS, Lehigh University
Age-Associated Callus Senescent Cells Produce TGF beta1 that Inhibits Fracture Healing in Aged Mice
Jiatong Liu, MS, University of Rochester Medical Center
Uncovering Unique Molecular Drivers of Cartilage Regeneration in Post Traumatic Osteoarthritis
Jillian McCool, University of California Merced
Additional Cerclage Wiring Allows Immediate Weight-Bearing
Sabrina Sandriesser, PhD, BG Unfallklinik Murnau
Effects of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) on Bone Formation/Remodeling During Fracture Healing
Ernesto Solorzano, BS, NEOMED
Differential Dynamics of Bone Graft Transplantation and Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy during the Healing of a Murine Long Bone Critical-size Defect
Ning Zhang, PhD, Stanford University
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