Department of Neurological Surgery is Leading the Way with Our Partners in Ithaca
Collaboration is the key to successful innovation for Weill Cornell Medical College and Cornell Biomedical Engineering and our Department of Neurological Surgery, is leading the way with our partners in Ithaca. Since inception, the collaboration between Neurological Surgery and BioMedical Engineering yielded five funded studies. They are as follows:
John A. Boockvar / Claudia Fischbach-Teschl
Awarded: Jim and Becky Morgan Tissue Engineering Grant 1 Year Grant: Total $115,000 (Boockvar received $15,200)
Project: Tissue-Engineered Microenvironmental Niches to Study Human Neural Stem Cell
Behavior: 3-D Microenvironmental Conditions that Recapitulate the Normal and Brain Tumor Stem Cell Perivascular Niche
Pending: Boockvar and Fischbach-Teschl just submitted a NIH R21 Grant Proposal for the
same project. If awarded, both investigators will have an additional $275,000 in
research funds for 2 years.
Theodore Schwartz / Chris Schaffer
Awarded: Two Grants for the same study
- American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery Grant 2 Year Grant: Total $134,000 (Schwartz received $45,000)
- Johnson & Johnson Cornell Seed Grant 1 Year Grant: Total $50,000 (Schwartz received $19,000)
Project: Feritosecond Laser Ablation to Understand and Control Cortical Epilepsy
Minah Suh / Peter Doerschuk
Awarded: Sandia National Laboratory Grant 5 Year Grant: $250,000
Project: Epilepsy: Physiological Models and Inference Based on Optical Imaging
Michael Kaplitt / Moonsoo Jin & Taehyun Park
Awarded: Neurologix Grant 2 Year Grant: $75,000
Project: Developing Adeno-Associated Virus with Modified Capsid
Susan Pannullo / Michael Schuler & David Putnam
Awarded: Weill Cornell New York Brain Tumor Project 1 Year Grant: $10,000
Project: New Drug Delivery and the Use of Novel Polymeric Structures for the Treatment
Of Malignant Gliomas
The following investigators are also working on the following unfunded projects:
Yves Pierre Gobin / William Olbricht are developing microfabricated catheters for testing neuroprotectants during stroke.
Minah Suh & Theodore Schwartz / Peter Doerschuk are collaborating to improve surgical planning for the treatment of cortical epilepsy and to contribute to the fundamental understanding of the mechanisms underlying the spread of the seizure.
Minah Suh has had 2 BME students work at the lab on the following studies:
Suh
R21
Treating Cortical Epilepsy with Interneuron Transplants
Suh
NeuroPace
Optical Imaging of Direct Corticol Stimulation
Schwartz
R01
Optical Imaging of Epilepsy in Rat & Human Neocortex
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