10.19.15
The North American Spine Society (NASS) awarded $150,000 in research grants and clinical traveling fellowships during its 30th Annual Meeting, held Oct. 14-17 in Chicago, Ill.
NASS Research Traveling Fellowships span at least five months at one medical center other than the facility at which the applicant currently practices. Clinical Traveling Fellowships span at least one month to be spent in three to five different medical centers studying spine techniques. Research grants provide funding for promising projects by qualified investigators in the spine field. NASS has funded more than $3.5 million in grants for spine-related research over the last 26 years.
The monetary awards were bestowed upon this year's recipients based on scientific merit, project significanve, approach and feasibility. NASS's Research Project Management Committee and Research Council selected the winners, and the Executive Committee approved them.
NASS awarded the Clinical Traveling Fellowship to Gaurav Raj Dhakal of Washington University Medical Center, Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai, Nicklaus Children's Hospital. Dhakal received $6,800.
The 2015 Research Traveling Fellowship ($7,000) went to Narihito Nagoshi, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of Toronto (Canada).
The research grant award winners are:
NASS Research Traveling Fellowships span at least five months at one medical center other than the facility at which the applicant currently practices. Clinical Traveling Fellowships span at least one month to be spent in three to five different medical centers studying spine techniques. Research grants provide funding for promising projects by qualified investigators in the spine field. NASS has funded more than $3.5 million in grants for spine-related research over the last 26 years.
The monetary awards were bestowed upon this year's recipients based on scientific merit, project significanve, approach and feasibility. NASS's Research Project Management Committee and Research Council selected the winners, and the Executive Committee approved them.
NASS awarded the Clinical Traveling Fellowship to Gaurav Raj Dhakal of Washington University Medical Center, Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai, Nicklaus Children's Hospital. Dhakal received $6,800.
The 2015 Research Traveling Fellowship ($7,000) went to Narihito Nagoshi, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of Toronto (Canada).
The research grant award winners are:
- Young Investigator---Clinical: "Development of a Virtual Reality Graded Exposure Intervention for Chronic Low Back Pain." Primary investigator: Zina Trost, Ph.D. ($46,300 two-year grant).
- Young Investigator---Basic: "Treatment With the NFkB Inhibitor NEMO-Binding Domain Peptide to Inhibit Disc Degeneration." Primary investigator: Juliane Glaeser, Ph.D. ($48,874, year one of a two-year grant).
- Basic Science: "Do Human Annulus Cells Actively Try to Repel Nerve Ingrowth Into the Disc?" Prinary investigator: Helen E. Gruber, Ph.D., ($41,025, year two of a two-year grant).