Euro-Notes

Olympus Research Fund Project Grant Winners

EAES and ESGE are pleased to announce that the following persons have been awarded the EURO-NOTES Olympus Research Fund grant. Twelve of the forty-eight complete applications received grants ranging between EUR 10,000 and EUR 50,000:

Professor W. Bemelman
  • Academic Medical Center - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Transgastric endoscopic assisted laparoscopic cholecystectomy with mini-instruments: A bridge to notes.
Professor P. Deprez
  • Clin. University Saint Luc - Brussels, Belgium
  • Inflammatory response during laparoscopy and laparoscopic ultrasonography: A comparison between abdominal endoscopic peroral transgastric (notes) and laparoscopic procedures in pigs.
Professor P. Fockens
  • Academic Medical Center - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Second phase comparison study of different gastric closure modalities for notes: In vivo evaluation.
Professor P. Fockens
  • Academic Medical Center - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Comparison of transcolonic notes peritoneoscopy versus laparoscopic peritoneoscopy in detecting metastasesss.
Dr A. Fritscher-Ravens
  • Homerton University Hospital - London, United Kingdom
  • A randomized controlled study of different ways of controlling complicating haemorrhage during transgastric and transcolonic access to the peritoneal cavity
Professor K.H. Fuchs
  • Markus Krankenhaus - Frankfurt (Main), Germany
  • Transgastric bowel resection and anasomosis with computer-aided stapling – a survival study.
Dr M. Hagen
  • University Hospital Geneva - Geneva, Switzerland
  • Natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery (notes) for roux-en-y gastric bypass: an experimental surgical study in a human corpse model.
Dr A. Ibarzabal Olano
  • Hospital Clinic - Barcelona, Spain
  • Randomized study comparing hemodynamic and pulmonary effects of transgastric endoscopic surgery with the insuflation of CO2 and air.
Dr O. Le Moine
  • ULB-Hôpital Erasme - Brussels, Belgium
  • A super-magenstrasse and mill operation with pyloroplasty by notes in a porcine feasibility and survival study.
Dr P.O. Park
  • Sahlgrenska University Hospital/Östra - Gothenburg, Sweden
  • A randomized comparison of post-operative adhesion formation and fibrinolytic markers during transgastric, laparoscopic and open tubal resections in pigs.
Dr M. Pérez-Miranda
  • Hospital del Río Hortega - Valladolid, Spain
  • Operator variability and relative performance of four second generation flexible endoscopic closure techniques (fects).
Professor T. Rösch
  • Charité University Hospitals Berlin - Berlin, Germany
  • A randomized comparison of immunologic responses to four abdominal accesses in pigs: transgastric, trans-colonic, transvaginal and laparoscopic approaches.
Dr E. Vazquez-Sequeiros
  • University Hospital Ramón y Cajal - Madrid, Spain
  • A controlled comparison of different strategies to create a permanent gastroenteric anastomosis by natural orifices translumenal endoscopic surgery (notes) in a swine model.
Acknowledgement

We would like to express our gratitude and thanks for Olympus's generous contribution which enabled us to realize this project.