CIMIT Consortium Institution: Brigham and Women's Hospital

Founding Consortium Institution: Brigham and Women's Hospital

Brigham and Women’s Hospital is a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School and one of the founding members of Partners HealthCare. As one of the largest academic medical centers in the country, It has long been involved in clinical and translational research.

A founding member of CIMIT in 1998, Brigham and Women’s Hospital has been involved in CIMIT’s work at every step. BWH’s excellence in transplant surgery has been especially crucial for CIMIT-funded projects in Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering and Minimally Invasive Surgery. Additionally, the new Shapiro Cardiovascular Center provides a first-hand opportunity to test CIMIT’s research in Cardiovascular Disease and Clinical Systems Innovation as it provides a location for providing high-tech integrated care.

Recent CIMIT-Funded Projects Awarded to Brigham and Women's Investigators

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR	PROJECT TITLE	PROGRAM AREA
Christopher Thompson	Strategic Project on Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery	Minimally Invasive Surgery
Joseph Bonventre	Characterization and Validation of ‘RenAlert’: A Silicon Nanowire Device for Early Diagnosis of Acute Kidney Injury	Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering
Frederick Chen	Quantitative Cardiac Restraint: Therapy for Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation	Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering
Yolonda Colson	Clinical Prototype for Intraoperative Aerosolized Nanoparticle Drug Delivery Expansile nanoparticles for tumor-targeted drug delivery to prevent lymph node metastases in breast cancer Drug-Eluting Closure Device for Surgical Resection Margins to Prevent Recurrence of Lung Cancer Pre-Clinical Study of Drug Delivery Microsphere Incorporation at Surgical Resection Margin Validation of Imaging System for Near-Infrared Image Guided Sentinel Lymph Node Dissection in Lung Cancer	Minimally Invasive Surgery Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering Cardiovascular Disease Image Guided Therapy
Michael Davidson	Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair with Adjustable Artificial Chordae	Cardiovascular Disease
Utkan Demirci	Disposable filter-based microfluidic chip for HIV CD4 monitoring at resource-limited settings	Biodetection & Sepsis Control
Elazer Edelman	Tissue engineering therapies for inhalation injury	Inhalation Technology
Alexandra Golby	Intracranial Electrophysiology System for the Intraoperative MRI A hybrid optic-electromagnetic surgical tool tip tracking system for neurosurgery	Neurotechnology Image Guided Therapy
Nobuhiko Hata	Swimming Capsule Endoscope for Diagnosis and Treatment of Small Intesting	Image Guided Therapy
W. Scott Hoge	MRI-Guided Cardiac Ablation Using EM Trackable Catheters and Real-Time MRI Scanner Control	Image Guided Therapy
Robert Insoft	Improving the Care of Neonates During Inter-Hospital Transport	Clinical Systems Innovation
Daniel Kacher	Radiofrequency Identification for Tracking of Surgical Instruments in the Intra-Operative Environment	Minimally Invasive Surgery
Jeffrey Karp	Intraoperative Programmable Autologous Stem Cell Therapy	Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering
Ali Khademhosseini	Microencapsulation of Cells Within Shape-Controlled Microgels as Building Blocks for Tissue Engineered Organs	Minimally Invasive Surgery
Richard Lee	A Novel Bio-Instructive Surface for Generating Osteoblastic Cells in the OR	Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering
Bruce Levy	Remotely Monitored Inhaler to Predict and Prevent Asthma Attacks	New Initiatives
Nathan McDannold	Herceptin Delivery to Breast Cancer Metastases in the Central Nervous System Via Focused Ultrasound-Induced Blood-Brain Barrier Disruption	Image Guided Therapy
Nobuhiko Nakajima	Real-Time Electromagnetic Navigation for Flexible Neuroendoscopy	Image Guided Therapy
Marvin Ryou	Magnetic Retraction for Advanced NOTES Procedures Systematic Mapping of NOTES Access Sites in Human Cadavers	Minimally Invasive Surgery Minimally Invasive Surgery
Ali Tavakkolizadeh	Hybrid Training in Translumenal Surgery	Neurotechnology
Christopher Thompson	Endoscopic Transcolonic Survival Study	Optical Diagnostics
Stefan Tullius	A system to measure continuous flow and perfusion to ensure successful kidney transplantation	Image Guided Therapy
George Washko	Quantitative Analysis of Airways and Airspace Disease Visualized on Computed Tomographic Imaging in Subject with COPD	Optical Diagnostics
Seung-Schik Yoo	Direct functional brain mapping using image-guided focused ultrasound	Image Guided Therapy
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