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

YEAR	PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR	PROJECT TITLE	PROGRAM AREA
2010 - 2008	Christopher Thompson	Strategic Project on Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery	Minimally Invasive Surgery
2011	Agar, Nathalie	Intraoperative Stereotactic Molecular Imaging of Tumor Boundaries by Mass Spectrometry	Image Guided Therapy
2011	Anderson, William	Memory Alteration through Theta Phase-Locked Electrical Stimulation	NeuroHealth
2011	Lin, Alexander	Neurochemical and Multimodal Biomarkers for Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy	Traumatic Brain Injury / NeuroHealth
2011	O'Donnell, Lauren	Diagnosis of diffuse axonal injury using robust tract-based quantification of diffusion tensor imaging	Traumatic Brain Injury / NeuroHealth
2011	Shenton, Martha, PhD	Improving Imaging of Diffuse Axonal Injury in Traumatic Brain Injury	Traumatic Brain Injury / NeuroHealth
2011	Teng, Yang (Ted), MD, PhD	Carbon monoxide mediated neural protection for treating spinal cord injury	Inhalation Technology
2011	Teng, Yang (Ted), MD, PhD	Treatment of Spinal Cord Injury Pain with Huperzine A: A Pre-clinical Study	Traumatic Brain Injury / NeuroHealth
2011	Thompson, Christopher	Utilization of a Novel Kinematics System to Improve Quality in Colonoscopy	Simulation
2011	Tokuda, Junichi	Robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy guided by patient-specific models	Image Guided Therapy
2011	Warnke, Peter	Physiologically-guided stereotactic radiosurgery in MTLE	NeuroHealth
2010 - 2009	Colson, Yolonda, MD, PhD	Expansile Nanoparticles for Tumor-Targeted Drug Delivery to Prevent Lymph Node Metastases in Breast Cancer	Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering
2010 - 2009	Demirci, Utkan, PhD	Disposable Filter-Based Microfluidic Chip for HIV CD4 Monitoring in Resource-Limited Settings	New Initiatives
2010	Golby, Alexandra, MD	A hybrid optic-electromagnetic surgical tool tip tracking system for neurosurgery	Image Guided Therapy
2010	Tullius, Stefan, MD, PhD	A system to measure continuous flow and perfusion to ensure successful kidney transplantation	Image Guided Therapy
2010	Yoo, Seung-Schik, PhD, MBA	Direct functional brain mapping using image-guided focused ultrasound	Image Guided Therapy
2009	Fennessy, Fiona, PhD	Computer-assisted Tumor Blood Vessel Tortuosity Analysis at 3T as a Method of Assessing Ablative Therapy Response	Image Guided Therapy
2009	Hata, Nobuhiko, PhD	Swimming Capsule Endoscope	Image Guided Therapy
2009	Teng, YD, MD, PhD	Antioxidant and Injectable Biodegradable Polymers to Promote Functional Recovery from Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)	Trauma & Casualty Care
2008	Colson, Yolonda, MD	Validation of Imaging System for Near-Infrared Image Guided Sentinel Lymph Node Dissection in Lung Cancer	Image Guided Therapy
2008	Colson, Yolonda, MD	Clinical Prototype for Intraoperative Aerosolized Nanoparticle Drug Delivery	Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering
2008	Golby, Alexandra, MD	Intracranial Electrophysiology System for the Intraoperative MRI	Neurotechnology
2008	Hata, Nobuhiko, PhD	Swimming Capsule Endoscope for Diagnosis and Treatment of Small Intestine	Image Guided Therapy
2008	Insoft, Robert, MD	Improving the Care of Neonates During Inter-hospital Transport	Clinical Systems Innovation
2008	Karp, Jeffrey M., PhD	Intraoperative Programmable Autologous Stem Cell Therapy	Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering
2008	Lee, Richard T., MD	A Novel Bio-Instructive Surface for Generating Osteoblastic Cells in the OR	Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering
2008	Levy, Bruce D., MD	Remotely Monitored Inhaler to Predict and Prevent Asthma Attacks	Clinical Systems Innovation
2008	McDannold, Nathan, PhD	Herceptin Delivery to Breast Cancer Metastases in the Central Nervous System via Focused Ultrasound-Induced Blood-Brain Barrier Disruption	Minimally invasive Surgery
2008	Nakajima, Nobuyuki, MD	Real-time electromagnetic navigation for flexible-neuroendoscopy	Neurotechnology
2008	Ryou, Marvin, MD	Systematic Mapping of NOTES Access Sites in Human Cadavers	Minimally Invasive Surgery
2008	Ryou, Marvin, MD	Magnetic Retraction for Advanced NOTES Procedures	Minimally Invasive Surgery

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Site Miners

Frederick Schoen,
MD, PhD

CIMIT RESPONSIBILITIES
Site Miner,
Brigham and Women's Hospital

Kirby G. Vosburgh, PhD

CIMIT RESPONSIBILITIES
Site Miner,
Brigham and Women's Hospital

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