Fiscal Year 2002 Awards
ENDOVASCULAR DEVICES
1) Endovascular devices core lab
Stephen Oesterle, MD, MGH
2) Cardiomyocyte repopulation
Stephen Oesterle, MD, MGH and Craig Thompson, MD, MGH
3) Magnetic resonance compatible devices
Stephen Oesterle, M.D, MGH. and Jerome Ackerman, PhD, MGH
4) Radio frequency ablation with needle-tipped catheter
William Stevenson, MD, BWH
5) Atrial fibrillation ablation with MR guidance
Stephen Oesterle, MD, MGH
MINIMALLY-INVASIVE SURGERY
6) Blake OR-Advanced Procedure Room and Innovation Laboratory, APRIL David Rattner, MD MGH and Keith Isaacson, MD, MGH
7) Robotics in cardiac surgery
David Torchiana, MD, MGH
8) Minimally Invasive Surgery outcomes
G. Scott Gazelle, MD, PhD, MGH and James Stahl, MD, MGH
9) Gallbladder extractor device
David Whittaker, MD, MGH and David Rattner, MD, MGH
10) Indoor tracking location system development
Nathaniel Sims, MD, MGH
11) Off-pump CABG myocardial protection
Jon Wee, MD, BWH
12) Patient monitoring and communications
Nathaniel Sims, MD, MGH and John Guttag, PhD, MIT
13) Focused ultrasound with albumin-coated microbubbles
Lawrence Cohn, MD, BWH
14) Microsurgical laser scalpel based on spectroscopic feedback: the "Smart Scalpel" Keng Lim, MGH and R. Rox Anderson, MD, MGH
15) Breast immobilization for MR-guided needle biopsy
Alexander Slocum, PhD, MIT
16) Material Handling by Magnetic Wheel Overhead Transport System
Alexander Slocum, PhD, MIT
IMAGE-GUIDED TECHNOLOGY
17) Cellular resolution endoscope and catheter-based optical imaging
Brett E. Bouma, PhD, MGH
18) Non-invasive image-guided opening of the blood-brain barrier
Kullervo Hynynen, PhD, BWH
19) Automated segmentation of anatomy from CT and MRI
Carl-Fredrik Westin, PhD, BWH
BIOMATERIALS/TISSUE REPAIR
20) Degradable conductive polymers
Robert Langer, ScD, MIT
21) Mullerian Inhibiting Substance (MIS) for ovarian cancer
David MacLaughlin, PhD, MGH
22) Tissue engineering: vascular systems and angiogenesis
Joseph Vacanti, MD, MGH
23) Tissue engineering: 3D tissue design
Joseph Vacanti, MD, MGH
24) Tissue engineering vascularized tissue in vitro for implant
Joseph Vacanti, MD, MGH and Jeffrey Borenstein, PhD, Draper
25) Experimental biological tooth replacement
Conan Young, PhD, Forsyth Institute
MEDICAL SIMULATION
26) Enabling technologies for medical simulation
Steven Dawson, MD, MGH
TRAUMA/CRITICAL CARE
27) Real-time blood assay
Christopher Dube, PhD, Draper
28) Endpoints of cellular resuscitation in hemorrhagic shock
Juan Carlos Puyana, MD, UPITT and Harry Asada, PhD, MIT
29) Development and characterization of pyrolysis: FAIMS analyzer for the
detection of Bacillus spores
Angela Zapata, PhD, Draper
30) An integrated approach to "healing environments"
Kent Larson, MIT
31) Gait evaluation
Donna Scarborough, PhD, MGH
COMBAT CASUALTY CARE
32) RAFTS/Bioglove
Geoffrey Ling, MD, PhD, USUHS
33) Parallel computer processing and modeling use in medical monitoring
William Wiesmann, MD, Harvey Mudd College
VULNERABLE PLAQUE
34) Vulnerable Plaque Program
James Muller, MD, MGH and Thomas Brady, MD, MGH
35) Characterization of vulnerable plaque
Thomas Brady, MD, MGH and Brett Bouma, PhD, MGH
36) Detection of vulnerable atherosclerotic plaques with radionuclide technology
Alan Fischman, MD, MGH
37) Vulnerable Plaque Program outcomes
G. Scott Gazelle, MD, PhD, MGH
STROKE
38) Continuous monitoring of stroke using diffuse optical tomography
David Boas, PhD, MGH
39) Tele-stroke
Lee Schwamm, MD, MGH
40) MGH XMR suite
R. Gilberto Gonzalez, MD, PhD, MGH
41) Optical imaging for rapid determination of pain: correlation with fMRI
David Borsook, MD, PhD, MGH