
Collaboration is the key to innovation, and Weill Cornell Medicine neurosurgeons have forged strong collaborative ties with Cornell University's Biomedical Engineering Department in Ithaca. The partnership has yielded the following:
- Roger Härtl and Larry Bonassar were awarded a $100,000 NFL Charities research grant for their collaboration on tissue engineering for spinal disc degeneration.
- Theodore Schwartz and Chris Schaffer were awarded:
- an NIH R21 and two grants to fund "Femtosecond Laser Ablation to Understand and Control Cortical Epilepsy".
- a $134,000, two-year grant from the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery.
- a $50,000, one-year seed grant from Johnson & Johnson.
- Mingrui Zhao, Theodore Schwartz, Chris Schaffer, and Nozomi Nishimura were awarded a $50,000 Cornell intercampus seed grant to map excitatory and inhibitory neural activity in focal neocortical seizures.
- Minah Suh and Peter Doerschuk were awarded a $250,000, five-year grant from the Sandia National Laboratory for "Epilepsy: Physiological Models and Inference Based on Optical Imaging".
- Minah Suh, Theodore Schwartz, and Peter Doerschuk launched a project to improve surgical planning for the treatment of cortical epilepsy and contribute to the fundamental understanding of the mechanisms underlying the spread of the seizure.
- Michael Kaplitt, Moonsoo Jin, and Taehyun Park were awarded a $75,000, two-year Neurologix grant for "Developing Adeno-Associated Virus with Modified Capsid."
- Susan Pannullo, Michael Schuler, and David Putnam were awarded a $10,000, one-year grant from the Weill Cornell Medicine New York Brain Tumor Project for "New Drug Delivery and the Use of Novel Polymeric Structures for the Treatment of Malignant Gliomas".
- Y. Pierre Gobin and William Olbricht Project launched a project to develop microfabricated catheters for testing neuroprotectants during strokes.