The purpose of this Stanford Neurosurgery Resident Research Education Program is to provide education in basic and clinical research to neurosurgery residents with the goal of fostering their growth into clinician scientists. Its goal s to educate and train neurosurgeons capable of establishing and directing a scientific laboratory throughout their careers. The strategy is to identify residents with the potential for scientific research and place them for a two year term in the laboratories of senior, highly experienced research scientists. They will also receive extensive counseling by the neurosurgical directors of the program and participate in seminars on research skills and ethical research behavior. Their progress and the success of the overall program will be repeatedly assessed and appropriate changes in the program will be made. It is hoped that this program will produce neurosurgeons capable of making new discoveries regarding the causes of diseases of the brain and spinal cord, that new, more effective treatments will result, and, in fulfillment of the mission of the NI, that the health of persons afflicted with these diseases will be improved.

Public Health Relevance

This project seeks support for the education of neurosurgical residents in research. It is hoped that this will produce neurosurgeons capable on making new discoveries regarding the causes of diseases of the brain and spinal cord and that new, more effective treatments will result. The previous form of this grant supported the research training o five residents whose work has resulted in seven publications (see bibliography). In the accompanying PHS 398 Research Plan the proposed research of three additional residents is described.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Type
Education Projects (R25)
Project #
5R25NS065741-10
Application #
9726073
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZNS1)
Program Officer
Korn, Stephen J
Project Start
2009-03-01
Project End
2020-06-30
Budget Start
2019-07-01
Budget End
2020-06-30
Support Year
10
Fiscal Year
2019
Total Cost
Indirect Cost
Name
Stanford University
Department
Neurosurgery
Type
Schools of Medicine
DUNS #
009214214
City
Stanford
State
CA
Country
United States
Zip Code
94305
Glozman, Tanya; Bruckert, Lisa; Pestilli, Franco et al. (2018) Framework for shape analysis of white matter fiber bundles. Neuroimage 167:466-477
Chang, Edwin; Pohling, Christoph; Beygui, Nooshin et al. (2017) Synergistic inhibition of glioma cell proliferation by Withaferin A and tumor treating fields. J Neurooncol 134:259-268
Bui, Anh D; Alexander, Allyson; Soltesz, Ivan (2017) Seizing Control: From Current Treatments to Optogenetic Interventions in Epilepsy. Neuroscientist 23:68-81
Lee, Sang-Hun; Dudok, Barna; Parihar, Vipan K et al. (2017) Neurophysiology of space travel: energetic solar particles cause cell type-specific plasticity of neurotransmission. Brain Struct Funct 222:2345-2357
Maroso, Mattia; Szabo, Gergely G; Kim, Hannah K et al. (2016) Cannabinoid Control of Learning and Memory through HCN Channels. Neuron 89:1059-73
Alexander, A; Maroso, M; Soltesz, I (2016) Organization and control of epileptic circuits in temporal lobe epilepsy. Prog Brain Res 226:127-54