Ethicon Endo-Surgery Research Fund Project Grant Winners
EAES and ESGE are pleased to announce that the following thirteen of the thirty-one applications have been awarded the EURO-NOTES Ethicon Endo-Surgery Research Fund grant.
Dr. Ralph Austin
- Colchester General Hospital - Colchester, United Kingdom
- Assessing a safe and rapid, novel technique for gastrotomy creation and closure during feasibility and developmental studies of transgastric cholecystectomy.
Dr. Ronan Cahill
- European Institute of Surgical Research and Innovation (EISRI) - Stillorgan, Ireland
- Determination of sentinel node biopsy as a means to provide oncological propriety for N.O.T.E.S. resectional techniques in humans.
Dr. Andrea Costanzi
- MATTU - Guilford, United Kingdom
- N.O.T.E.S. closure of gastrotomy: an ex-vivo experimental design comparing the Over The Scope Clip (OTSC) and Tissue Apposition System (TAS) with laparoscopic suturing.
Dr. Xavier Dray
- Hôpital Lariboisière, APHP, Université - Paris, France
- The No Scar Autopsy (NSA) Project: Acceptability, Feasibility and Diagnostic Yield of Computed Tomography-Guided NOTES Autopsy.
Dr. Bibiana Escobar
- Hospital Clinic - Barcelona, Spain
- Effects of pneumoperitoneum on intra-abdominal organs prefusion during natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery: the role of NAC and hypertonic saline pre-treatment.
Dr. Gloria Fernández-Esparrach
- Fundació Clínic Per a La Recerca Biomèdica - Barcelona, Spain
- The Role of an Image Registration System for Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES): a Comparative Study.
Professor Hubertus Feussner
- Klinikum rechts der Isar der TUM - München, Germany
- The efficiency of training NOTES interventions using an ex vivo training unit.
Professor Paul Fockens
- Academic Medical Center - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- In vitro comparison and evaluation of colonic closure modalities for Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES).
Dr. Monika Hagen
- University Hospital Geneva - Geneva, Switzerland
- NOTES Roux-en-Y gastric bypass: A follow-up study in pigs.
Professor Mario Morino
- University of Torino - Torino, Italy
- The EURO-NOTES Clinical Registry Project
Dr. Georg Spaun
- Legacy Health System - Portland, OR, United States of America
- The Role of Flexible Endoscopy in Mediastinal Dissection for Esophageal Surgery: Comparing transesophageal and transcervical flexible approaches.
Dr. Mark van Berge Henegouwen
- Academic Medical Center - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- NOTES Gastrojejunostomy via the Transgastric approach: a survival animal study.
Dr. Enrique Vazquez-Sequeiros
- University Hospital Ramon y Cajal - Alcala de Henares, Spain
- Prospective, randomized comparison in a swine model of two different approaches for endoscopic full thickness resection as a diagnostic tool for severe neuromuscular functional disorders.
Acknowledgement
We would like to express our gratitude and thanks for Ethicon Endo-Surgery's generous contribution which enabled us to realize this project.
