Department of Neurological Surgery is Leading the Way with Our Partners in Ithaca

Collaboration is the key to successful innovation for Weill Cornell Medical College and Cornell Biomedical Engineering and our Department of Neurological Surgery, is leading the way with our partners in Ithaca. Since inception, the collaboration between Neurological Surgery and BioMedical Engineering yielded five funded studies. They are as follows:


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John A. Boockvar / Claudia Fischbach-Teschl

Awarded: Jim and Becky Morgan Tissue Engineering Grant 1 Year Grant: Total $115,000 (Boockvar received $15,200)

Project: Tissue-Engineered Microenvironmental Niches to Study Human Neural Stem Cell

Behavior: 3-D Microenvironmental Conditions that Recapitulate the Normal and Brain Tumor Stem Cell Perivascular Niche

Pending: Boockvar and Fischbach-Teschl just submitted a NIH R21 Grant Proposal for the same project. If awarded, both investigators will have an additional $275,000 in research funds for 2 years.

Theodore Schwartz / Chris Schaffer

Awarded: Two Grants for the same study

  1. American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery Grant 2 Year Grant: Total $134,000 (Schwartz received $45,000)
  2. Johnson & Johnson Cornell Seed Grant 1 Year Grant: Total $50,000 (Schwartz received $19,000)

Project: Feritosecond Laser Ablation to Understand and Control Cortical Epilepsy

Minah Suh / Peter Doerschuk

Awarded: Sandia National Laboratory Grant 5 Year Grant: $250,000

Project: Epilepsy: Physiological Models and Inference Based on Optical Imaging

Michael Kaplitt / Moonsoo Jin & Taehyun Park

Awarded: Neurologix Grant 2 Year Grant: $75,000

Project: Developing Adeno-Associated Virus with Modified Capsid

Susan Pannullo / Michael Schuler & David Putnam

Awarded: Weill Cornell New York Brain Tumor Project 1 Year Grant: $10,000

Project: New Drug Delivery and the Use of Novel Polymeric Structures for the Treatment Of Malignant Gliomas

The following investigators are also working on the following unfunded projects:

Yves Pierre Gobin / William Olbricht are developing microfabricated catheters for testing neuroprotectants during stroke.

Minah Suh & Theodore Schwartz / Peter Doerschuk are collaborating to improve surgical planning for the treatment of cortical epilepsy and to contribute to the fundamental understanding of the mechanisms underlying the spread of the seizure.

Minah Suh has had 2 BME students work at the lab on the following studies:

Suh
R21
Treating Cortical Epilepsy with Interneuron Transplants

Suh
NeuroPace
Optical Imaging of Direct Corticol Stimulation

Schwartz
R01
Optical Imaging of Epilepsy in Rat & Human Neocortex

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