CSRS Announces the 2021 Research Grant Recipients
Congratulations to the following recipients of CSRS Research Grants! All grant applications undergo a rigorous peer review process by the CSRS Research Committee. CSRS research funding is always a highly rigorous and competitive process – CSRS receives many high quality proposals each year, and every proposal is thoroughly vetted and reviewed by the Research Committee. In 2021, 31 grant applications were received and a total of eight were funded across four grant categories.
21st Century Grant Awards
Conventional-therapy & FES-therapy In-Veritas Effects Study (C-FIVE Study): Rehabilitation of the upper extremity for new persistent C5 palsy after surgical treatment of patients with degenerative cervical myelopathy.
Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, University Health Network; University of Toronto
Primary Investigator: Julio Furlan, MD, MBA, MSc, PhD
Glycemic dysfunction in a cervical model of rodent spinal cord injury
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Primary Investigator: Bernadette Grayson, PhD
Seed Starter Grant Award
Objective functional status changes following decompression for cervical spondylotic myelopathy
Emory University
Primary Investigator: Sandra Hobson, MD
Resident Fellow Grant Awards
Osteogenic effects of varenicline: an in vitro study of human mesenchymal stromal cells and osteoblasts
Rothman Orthopaedic Institute
Primary Investigator: Brian Karamian, MD
Using Ecological Momentary Assessment and Digital Phenotyping to Create a Novel Cervical Radiculopathy Disease Profile
Washington University in St. Louis
Primary Investigator: Jacob Greenberg, MD, MSCI
The Effect of Cervical Orthoses on Intervertebral Kinematics
University of Pittsburgh
Primary Investigator: Stephen Chen, MD
A Patient Centered Quantitative Analysis of Preoperative Expectations and Postoperative Satisfaction in Cervical Fusion
Northwestern University
Primary Investigator: Nicholas Arpey, MD
Spinal Cord Injury Grant Award
The impact of timing of surgery on neurological and functional outcome in traumatic spinal cord injury: a prospective, observational multicenter study (D-SCIRET: Database of Spinal Cord Injury on Recovery and Evaluation of Timing)
Leiden University Medical Center
Primary Investigator: Charlotte Adegeest, MD