Martijn van Griensven has been elected as president of the section basic research from the German Society for Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery (Sektion für Grundlagenforschung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädie und Unfallchirurgie e.V.). He was elected during the general assembly at the annual congress DKOU in Berlin, Germany, which is the largest European conference in the field of orthopaedics and trauma surgery. He will be heading the section for the coming two years and be involved in all research related aspects from basic to translation science.