Clinical Trials
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.