Funding
Research Funding 2019
Principal Investigator: Jacob Alant
Co- Investigator: Sean Christie
Nova Scotia Health Authority Research Fund
Occult Bacterial Discitis and Modic Change in Patients Receiving Surgical Therapy for Lumbar Disc herniation
2019 - 2020
$30,000
Co- Investigator: Sean Christie
Principal Investigator: Dr. Farhad Pirouzmand
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Prophylaxis for Venous Thromboembolism in Severe Traumatic Brain injury (PROTEST): A Double Blind Randomized Controlled Trial
2019 - 2023
$742,000
Co- Principal Investigator: Sean Christie
Principal Investigator: Dr. John Frampton
CRCC – New Frontiers in Research Fund - Exploration
Flexible Biomaterial Fibers for Nerve Repair and Regeneration
2019 - 2021
$250,000
Co- Principal Investigator: Sean Christie
Principal Investigator: Dr. Syed Abidi
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Predictive Modelling to Predict Personalized Spinal Surgery Outcomes: A Data Driven e-Health Platform for Informed and Evidence-based Decision Making Triage Spinal Surgeries
2019 - 2020
$199,408
Co- Investigator: Sean Christie
Principal Investigator: Dr. Sonja McVeigh
Nova Scotia Health Authority Research Fund
Plasma Melatonin Levels After Acute Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury in Individuals with Complete and Incomplete Cervical and Thoracic Spinal Cord Injury
2019 - 2021
$75,000
Principal Investigator: Sean Christie
Medtronic Canada
Prospective Registry of Clinical Outcomes following Elective Spine Surgery
2018-2019
$40,000
Principal Investigator: Sean Christie
Brain Repair Centre: Knowledge Translation Grant
Time is Spine: Minimizing Secondary Spinal Cord Injury by Hyper-Acute Delivery of a Combination of Pleiotropic Neuroprotectants
2018-2019
$30,000
Principal Investigator: Sean Christie
Nova Scotia Health Authority Research Fund
Can We Predict Long Term Success of Permanent Spinal Cord Stimulators?
2018-2020
$25,000
Principal Investigator: Sean Christie
Department of Surgery
Neuronal Protection Following Spinal Cord Injury through Inhibition of the Mitochondrial Calcium Uniporter
2019 - 2021
$49,122
Principal Investigator: Sean Christie
Nova Scotia Health Authority Research Fund
Implementation of an Enhanced Recovery after Surgery (ERAS) Protocol for Spine Surgery at the QE II
2019
$3000
Principal Investigator: Alon Friedman
Clinical Site Investigator: David B. Clarke
Co-Investigators: Several others including Simon Walling
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Project Grant: 2016 1st Live Pilot (2016-03-01). Microvascular Injury and Blood-Brain Barrier Dysfunction as Novel Biomarkers and Targets for Treatment in Traumatic Brain Injury
Funding over five years ($190,000 per year)
2016-2021
$950,000
Principal Investigators: Jamie Hutchison, Alexis Turgeon (co-leads)
Co-Investigators: David B. Clarke and several others
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Canadian Traumatic Brain Injury Research Consortium (CTRC)
Funding over four years
2015-2019
$1,824,513
Principal Investigator: Steven D. Beyea
Co-Investigators: David B. Clarke, and several others
Research Nova Scotia Innovation Trust Innovation Grant and ACOA BDP Award
Optimization & Validation of a Novel Emergency Department Point-of-Care MRI
2018-2019
$1,960,160 (RNST, ACOA)
Principal Investigator: Jeff Brubacher
Co-Investigators: David B. Clarke and several others
Health Canada (Substance Use and Addictions Program – SUAP)
Monitoring and Preventing Drug-Impaired Driving in Canada
2019-2022
$1,361,356
Principal Investigator: Dr. S.A. Imran`
Co-Investigators: David B. Clarke and several others
Nova Scotia Health Authority Research Fund
Acromegaly Facial Features – Novel Strategies Comparing Patients, Specialists and Computerized Facial Recognition Software
2019
$25,000
Principal Investigator: Lutz Weise
Boston Scientific
Vercise Registry
2018-2020
$50,000
Principal Investigator: Lutz Weise
Department of Surgery
Optimizing Deep Brain Stimulation Targeting using Motor Evoked Potentials
2019
$49,539