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About Us
The Airlift Research Foundation is built on the success—and the legacy—of The Aircast Foundation to support orthopedic research.
In 2008, The Aircast Foundation Board of Directors formed the Airlift Research Foundation as a charitable, public foundation with an expanded mission to fund orthopaedic research, increase public awareness of traumatic war injuries to military and civilian survivors worldwide, and collaborate with other groups that have similar interests. The Foundation continues to promote excellence in clinical scientific research in orthopaedics and promote the vision of Glenn Johnson, Jr., founder of The Aircast Foundation, to foster the careers of young investigators, clinicians and clinician scientists by helping them to shed light on some of the most complicated problems and difficult challenges in the field of orthopaedics.
Since 1996, The Aircast Foundation has awarded 40 grants totaling $3.9 million to 30 academic institutions in 17 states. Five Grantees received a prestigious Kappa Delta award, and many others have received major research awards as well as professional recognition and advancement. The Aircast Foundation's Grantees have subsequently received $36.8 million in extramural funding, inclusive of $29 million from NIH and DOD, leveraging by nearly 10 times the original funds invested by The Aircast Foundation.
The Airlift Research Foundation will carry forward this standard by continuing to search for sources of research excellence and new areas of unexplored research. We will raise funds for valuable, advanced translational research including techniques of debridement, antibiotic treatment and infection control, management of open fractures, abnormal bone regrowth (heterotopic ossification), regenerative medicine treatments for segmental bone defects and limb regeneration, as well as the potential development of improved amputation techniques and outcomes. We will increase public awareness not only through the dissemination of information related to on-going studies, but also through continued efforts to improve upon the understanding of the critical need for further investigation in this area of scientific research.