Fiscal Year 2000 Awards
ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES
CATHETER-BASED INTERVENTION
Cardiomyocyte repopulation: percutaneous delivery
Stephen Oesterle, MD, MGH
MINIMALLY-INVASIVE SURGERY
Virtual fixtures robot assist MI cardiac surgery
Robert Howe, PhD, HMA
OR of the future
David Rattner, MD, MGH
Application of robotics interface in surgery
David Torchiana, MD, MGH
Endoscopic computer enhanced cardiac surgery (DaVinci)
Lishan Aklog, MD, BWH
Develop servo-controlled microsurgical laser scalpel
Ian Hunter, PhD, MIT
Spine treatment for discogenic low back pain
Milan Stojanovic, MD, MGH
IMAGE-GUIDED TECHNOLOGY
Endoscopic optical coherence tomography-OCT
Norman Nishioka, MD, MGH
OCT of newborns as risk
Barry Kosofsky, MD, PhD, MGH
BIOMATERIALS/TISSUE REPAIR
Degradable conductive polymers
Robert Langer, ScD, MIT
In vivo recombinant protein delivery device
David MacLaughlin, PhD, MGH
Engineered vascularized tissue in-vitro for implant
Joseph Vacanti, MD, MGH
Engineered vascularized tissue in-vitro for implant
Joseph Vacanti, MD, MGH and Jeffrey Borenstein, PhD, Draper
Fetal Tissue Engineering
Scott Adzick, MD, Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia
Minimally-invasive meniscal repair: tissue engineering cartilage
Thomas Gill, MD, MGH
Skin as a source of multipoint stem cells
Claudio Talora, MS, MGH
MEDICAL SIMULATION
Enabling technologies for med simulation
Steven Dawson, MD, MGH
TRAUMA/CRITICAL CARE
Real-time blood assay
Brian Cunningham, PhD, Draper
Multi RF diagnostic tool: trauma casualty care mgt
Geoffrey S. Ling, MD, PhD, USUHS
Internet system: home-based health monitoring
William Wiesmann, MD, Harvey Mudd College
VULNERABLE PLAQUE
Detection of vulnerable plaques: OCT
Brett Bouma, PhD, MGH
Coronary angioscopy to detect vulnerable plaques
Ik-Kyung Jang, MD, MGH
Catheter-based ablation VT/VF using substrate mapping
Vivek Reddy, MD, MGH
STROKE
Assessment of neuroprotection
Gregory Sorensen, MD, MGH
Remote stroke video-conferencing project (RSVP)
Lee Schwamm, MD, MGH
NEW INITIATIVES
Outcome assessment in menorrhagia
Johanna Bosch, PhD, MGH
Develop fiberguides for laser-pulsed fluid wave for vasodilation
John Peterson, PhD, MGH