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Thirteen BWH-led research teams last week received grants for projects that aim to bring “life-changing technology to patients as quickly as possible,” according to John Parrish, MD, founder and director of the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT), which awarded the grants.
The awards range from $40,000 to $100,000, and CIMIT officials expect that the investigators will gain further support from government or industry sources in the future. CIMIT, a nonprofit consortium of Boston area teaching hospitals and engineering schools, provides innovators with resources to explore, develop and implement novel technological solutions for today’s most urgent health care problems. CIMIT’s mission is to improve patient care by bringing scientists, engineers and clinicians together to catalyze development of innovative technology, emphasizing minimally invasive diagnosis and therapy.
“One goal of CIMIT is to develop innovative technology that can help patients, and many of these research projects definitely have the potential to improve health care,” said Frederick Schoen, MD, PhD, executive vice chairman of BWH Pathology, co-director of the newly established BWH BRI Technology in Medicine Initiative and BWH site miner for CIMIT (along with Joseph Bonventre, MD, PhD).
BWH recipients and projects include:
Yolonda Colson, MD, “Validation of Imaging System for Near-Infrared Image-Guided Sentinel Lymph Node Dissection in Lung Cancer” and “Clinical Prototype For Intraoperative Aerosolized Nanoparticle Drug-Delivery”
Alexandra Golby, MD, “Intracranial electrophysiology system for the intraoperative MRI”
Nobuhiko Hata, PhD, “Swimming capsule endoscope for diagnosis and treatment of small intestine”
Robert Insoft, MD, “Improving the Care of Neonates During Inter-hospital Transport”
Jeffrey Karp, PhD, “Intraoperative Programmable Autologous Stem Cell Therapy”
Richard T. Lee, MD, “A Novel Bio-instructive Surface for Generating Osteoblastic Cells in the OR”
Bruce Levy, MD, “Remotely Monitored Inhaler to Predict and Prevent Asthma Attacks”
Nathan McDannold, PhD, “Herceptin delivery to breast cancer metastases in the central nervous system via focused ultrasound-induced blood-brain barrier disruption”
Nobuyuki Nakajima, MD, “Real-time electromagnetic navigation for flexible-neuroendoscopy”
Marvin Ryou, MD, “Magnetic Retraction for Advanced NOTES Procedures” and “Systematic Mapping of NOTES Access Sites in Human Cadavers”
In addition, a BWH team is supporting researchers of HMS and Draper Laboratory in their project to develop a rapid, sensitive test for sepsis.