Ongoing Research
Sponsor: VCU’s Value and Efficiency Teaching and Research (VETAR) awards
A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled proof of concept study to assess the safety and efficacy of Elezanumab in acute traumatic cervical spinal cord injury.
PI: Kathryn Holloway, M.D.
Supporting Agency: Virginia Center on Aging – Alzheimer's and Related Diseases Research Award Fund (ADRAF)
Project Summary: The project objective is to assess the effect of duration and timing of NBM stimulation within the sleep/wake cycle on the restoration of learning ability, neurogenesis, and cholinergic cell survival in demented rats.
Clinical
Analyzing the epilepsy surgery database
Basic Science
Post-traumatic epilepsy
Multidisciplinary
Safety of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in a patient with an implanted DBS system through the development of unique brain phantoms with accurate electromagnetic properties
Detection of a unique EEG signal indicative of efficacious DBS
Unique EEG signatures in corticography and evoked potentials in DBS
CranialCloud: a cloud-based architecture to support trans-institutional collaborative efforts in neurodegenerative disorders and epilepsy
Clinical
- Analyzing the effect of lead location on DBS efficacy
- Stereotactic efficacy and technique development
- VCU Medical Center and VA DBS database analysis
Basic Science
DBS for dementia: Evaluation of stimulation of the nucleus basalis of Meynert in rodent models of dementia
Past Research
Emmy Miller, Ph.D./Department of Defense
7/20/2016 – 12/29/2016
Kathryn Holloway, M.D./Michael J. Fox Foundation
8/2/2016 – 2/2/2017
William Broaddus, M.D./Cavion, LLC
5/5/2014 – 12/31/2016
Dong Sun, Ph.D./Alzheimer’s Foundation
8/18/2015 – 2/17/2017
John Reavey-Cantwell, M.D./Vanderbilt University
10/30/2012 – 10/2017
Bruce Mathern, MD./University of California, San Francisco
8/1/2012 – 8/31/2017
William Broaddus, M.D./Johns Hopkins University
9/17/2015 – 7/31/2018
John Reavey-Cantwell, M.D./Stryker Biotech
9/4/2015 – 9/3/2017
Dong Sun, Ph.D./Commonwealth Health Research Board
7/1/2015 – 6/30/2017
Research Coordinators
Amy Erickson, R.N.
Research Coordinator
Amy Newcombe, R.N.
Clinical Research Coordinator
Andrea Lewis
Research Program Coordinator