VERiTAS- Vertebrobasilar Flow Evaluation and Risk of Transient Ischemic Attack and Stroke Study (VERiTAS)

• International multicenter $2million NIH funded R01 grant
• PI: Sepideh Amin-Hanjani, MD
• Project Manger: Linda Rose-Finnell, MPA, CRA
• UIC is the coordinating center and 1 of the 6 sites
• http://veritas.neur.uic.edu/

BASELINE BLOOD FLOW STUDY—using NOVA technology

• Single Site Healthy Volunteers
• PI: Fady T. Charbel, MD
• Looking for healthy volunteers –have over 300 volunteers at present, current focus is over 60 year old.
• More details on the NOVA technology are available at www.vassolinc.com

A Prospective Multicenter Trial of Novo-TTF-100A together with Temozolomide alone in patients with newly diagnosed GBM (EF-14)

• International, multisite study looking at patients with newly diagnosed stage IV brain tumors, glioblastoma multiforme (GBM)
• UIC PI: Herbert Engelhard, MD, PhD
• Sponsor, Novocure, Ltd.
• http://www.novocuretrial.com/

A prospective, non-randomized, concurrent control, open label, post-approval study of NovoTTF-100A in recurrent GBM patients (EF-19)

• To confirm that the efficacy of the NovoTTF-100A System in patients with recurrent GBM treated in a real life setting is comparable to that of BSC chemotherapy patients.
• UIC PI: Herbert Engelhard, MD, PhD
• Sponsor, Novocure, Ltd.
• http://www.novocuretrial.com/

ISPR Study Implantable System Performance Registry (ISPR)

• Postmarket surveillance registry initiated by Medtronic (sponsor) to obtain long-term follow-up data on all Medtronic implantable infusion and neurostimulation systems implanted at UIC in order to prospectively monitor the performance of such systems
• UIC PI: Konstantin Slavin

Neurosurgery Brain Tumor Registry, NBTR

• Collaboration with Department of Neuro-Oncology to create a database will all patients seen in the Dept of Neurosurgery and Oncology diagnosed with either primary or secondary brain tumor.
• UIC PI: Herbert Engelhard, MD, PhD
• Sponsored by the Department of Neurosurgery

Reclaim Deep Brain Stimulation for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Therapy

• The Reclaim DBS System delivers electrical stimulation to the area in the brain to help control symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).
• UIC PI: Konstantin Slavin, MD
• Sponsor, Medtronic, Inc.

Prospective, multi-center, randomized, double-blinded, partial crossover study to assess the safetyand efficacy of the bioness® stimrouter™ neuromodulation system in the treatment for patients with chronic pain of peripheral nerve origin

• To investigate whether the StimRouter stimulation therapy leads to clinically relevant pain relief in patients with chronic intractable pain of peripheral nerve origin after 3 months of treatment.
• UIC PI: Konstantin Slavin, MD
• Sponsor, Bioness, Inc.

ACE: An Aneurysm Coiling Efficiency Study of the Penumbra Coil 400 System

• This study is a prospective, multi-center study of patients with intracranial  aneurysms, peripheral aneurysms or other malformations who are treated by the PC 400 System.
• UIC PI: Victor Aletich, MD
• Sponsor, Penumbra, Inc.