The purpose of ANZORS is to promote, support, develop and encourage research in orthopaedics, musculoskeletal disorders, diseases and injuries and in their management; to provide a forum for the sharing and dissemination of knowledge in these fields.

ANZORS will celebrate its 31st anniversary in 2025 and is a founding member of ICORS. ANZORS represents a stream of basic and applied scientists, orthopaedic surgeons, biomedical engineers, rheumatologists and industry scientists who have passion, dynamics and motivation to pursue orthopaedic research.

The orthopaedic research community in Australia and New Zealand, and around the world, is rapidly expanding. Several areas, including molecular biology research, therapeutic lineage specific cell therapy, orthopaedic bioengineering, prosthesis design and postoperative assessment are becoming the focus of research by our members.

Thus, communication between groups for encouragement of interdisciplinary collaboration is the foremost goal for ANZORS. In 2020, ICORS awarded ANZORS to host its 2025 meeting in Adelaide, Australia. This will be the first ICORS meeting in the southern hemisphere and will showcase some of the world’s most innovative orthopaedic research.