Daniel Saris Receives the First Arnold I. Caplan Award for Research in Orthobiologics
Daniel Saris has received the Arnold I. Caplan Award for Distinguished Research in Orthobiologics (Caplan Award) from the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS).
The Arnold I. Caplan Award recognizes. Dr. Saris for the development and testing of the knee joint restoration procedure RECLAIM (Recycled Cartilage Auto/Allo Implantation). The RECLAIM procedure debrides the patient's knee defect by removing cartilage from the knee or hip, mincing the pieces into smaller fragments and extracting cartilage cells through chemical digestion to the level of the chondron. The recycled autologous chondrons are combined with allogeneic donor MSCs and injected into the patient鈥檚 knee defect with a mixture of the patient鈥檚 cells. This procedure enables the patient's body to repair the cartilage defect, something it otherwise would be unable to do.
The award celebrates the legacy of Arnold Caplan, a pioneer in the field of orthobiologics and Medicinal Signaling Cells (MSCs), by honoring his significant contributions over a span of more than five decades to advancing biologics solutions for musculoskeletal injuries or pathologies.
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