Thank you, Gloria. So just a brief overview, the AHN Foundation is based in Switzerland. It's essentially a foundation that has set up monies for research and education, both in Europe and North America. And the vision is basically to provide an independent network that's international in the field of orthopedic tissue regeneration to drive the development and understanding of new treatment strategies for the well-being of the patient. And the mission, basically, is to promote research, to provide guidance and education, and to create a network, much like Anna, of young professionals, experts, and societies and collaborate, and ultimately to help drive innovation, setting standards, provide education, and sharing information. It's a foundation that was established about three years ago. You may recognize some of these individuals, and it's, again, has a strong European influence as well as a North American influence. Essentially, collaboration is the basis of this foundation, and you can see they've collaborated with a number of societies and continue to do so. And essentially, the areas are in the provision of educational grants, educational scholarships. We had a number, I think, 10 individuals here who were provided scholarships to attend the Anna event, fellowship programs, awards, and innovation grants, as you see here. At this meeting, this is, this session itself, this collaboration is a function of Anna, ORS, and ANN. They've provided a pilot grant for this specific topic, for rotator cuff regeneration, to the amount of $25,000. So it's basically going to end in a specific question that we'd like to answer, based upon your input, and will be a call to action. They've also provided 10 on-education grants that cover the registration fee, as I've already alluded to. Those of you in the room, if you would mind to register, I don't know if you guys are familiar with these shoes, but it's now my go-to for running shoes. So super light and easy to travel with. So you guys can register to the ANN Foundation at this address here, and they are going to provide a random drawing for those of you in this room who register to the ANN Foundation. Last bit of housekeeping, if you will, if you haven't downloaded the app, so please go to your app store and download the ANNA mobile app. And that'll take a couple of seconds. Once you get there, open it up and go to the ANNA on ORS request for proposals. It's on the bottom right, there's a box. And it'll immediately take you to the ANN Foundation live polling, and then you'll be able to select the question to answer. And based upon the responses to your answers, the response to the questions, we will then determine what the RFPs will be for for this research grant, which will be available to you on the ANN Foundation website, the ORS website, and the ANNA website. And that's pretty much it. So if we can go to our first talk, and we'll get started. Scott, thank you.

AHN Foundation

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orthopedic tissue regeneration

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education funding