Research

Recently Awarded Research

Clinical Trials
Division	PI	Title	Sponsor
Cardiovascular & Thoracic	Peter K. Smith, MD	Cardiothoracic Surgical Network Clinical Center	NIH
General Surgery	Paul C. Kuo	RAD001/Solid Organ Transplant	Novartis
General Surgery	Jeffrey H. Lawson, MD, PhD	Atrium iCAST Iliac Stent Pivotal Study	Atrium Medical Corp.
General Surgery	Chris R. Mantyh, MD	SIMPLE Hemorrhoidectomy	Picira Pharmaceuticals
Neurosurgery	Duane A. Mitchell, MD PhD	Ribonucleic Acid Loaded Dendritic Cell Vaccines Targeting Brain Tumor Cells	Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure, Inc.
Neurosurgery	John H. Sampson, MD, PhD	Predicting oncogenic pathways driving resistance to an epidermal growth factor receptor targeting vaccine using signaling pathway gene signatures	Goldhirsh Foundation
Neurosurgery	John H. Sampson, MD, PhD	Ribonucleic Acid-based Immunotherapy Targeting Antigens Unique to Brain Tumor Stem Cells	NIH
Neurosurgery	Herbert F. Fuchs, MD	An Operator-Blinded Study of the Efficacy of ShuntCheck	Neuro Diagnostic Devices
Neuro Oncology	James, Vredenburgh, MD	Bevacizumab in Combination with Radiation and Temozolomide	Pfizer
Urology	Daniel George, MD	DRUG for a Phase I Study of Sunitinib plus Everolimus in Patients with Metastatic Conventional type Renal Cell Carcinoma	Pfizer
Urology	Danierl George, MD	First-Line treatment in Subjects with Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma	Wyeth Pharmaceuticals
Urology	David M. Albala, MD	Adjuvant Trial with Soy after Radical Prostatectomy	University of Illinois

Basic & Translational Research
Division	PI	Title	Sponsor
General Surgery	Paul C. Kuo, MD	Osteopontin regulates ubiquitin-pproteasome degradation of STAT1	NIH
General Surgery	Sandhya Lagoo-Deendaylan, MD, PhD	Aging and Immune Response in Sepsis	NIH
General Surgery	Herbert K. Lyerly, MD	Administration and Regulatory Affairs	NIH
General Surgery	Herbert K. Lyerly, MD	Immunotherapy with High Frequency Careinoembryonic, CEA	NIH
General Surgery	Lee Wilke, MD	Optical Surveillance of Tumor Margins in Patients undergoing Breast Concerving Surgery	Endls Optics Corp.
Neurosurgery	Ashok K. Shetty, PhD	Neural Grafts and Injury-Induced Hippocampal Dysfunction	NIH
Neurosurgery	Dennis A. Turner, MD	Lifespan Metabolic Neuroprotection during Hypoglycemia	NIH
Neurosurgery	John Sampson, MD, PhD	Cytotoxic T-lymphocyte Antigen-4 in Glioblastoma Multiforme	Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure
Neuro Oncology	Lee W. Jones, PhD	Using Messaging Framing to promote Physical Activity in Colorectal Cancer	NIH
Orthopaedic Surgery	Beverly Fermor, PhD	Nitric Oxide, Oxygen and Mechanical Stress in Cartilage	NIH
Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery	Howard Levinson, MD	Duputrens Disease is Putatively Caused by Actomyosin Cell Contractility	American Society for Surgery of the Hand
Surgical Sciences	Francis Ali-Osman, DSc	Protein Kinase C and GSTP1 interactions in glioma drug resistance	NIH
Surgical Sciences	Tim M. Clay, PhD	Cell Processing and Immune Monitoring	NIH
Surgical Sciences	Hui-Wen Lo, Phd	National Cancer Institute Howard Temin Award Transition	NIH
Surgical Sciences	Jeffrey R. Marks, PhD	Expression based markers for breast cancer detection	NIH
Surgical Sciences	Ricard Pietrobon, MD, PhD	RC1 DP2	NIH
Surgical Sciences	Bruce Sullenger, PhD	Development and Analysis of Aptamer-Antiodote Pairs	NIH
Surgical Sciences	Bruce Sullenger, PhD	Pharmacodynamics of Genes and Oligonucleotides	UNCCH
Surgical Sciences	Kent J. Weinhold, PhD	HIV Vaccine Trials Network P503	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Surgical Sciences	Kent J. Weinhold, PhD	HVTN Lab Regular Subcontract	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Surgical Sciences	Kent J. Weinhold, PhD	HVTN Regular Budget	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Urology	Stephen Freedland, MD	Multicenter Collaborative Proposal on Prostate Cancer Survivorship	Prostate Cancer Foundation
Urology	Tracey Krupsky, MD	CARESS Couples' Arousal Relationaship Satisfaction Survey	Dept of Defense