Past Grantees
Funding high-impact, high-quality basic, and translational research is essential for the identification and testing of new drugs and other therapies that could change how we treat hydrocephalus.
Our Past Grantees
That is why, each year, the Hydrocephalus Association runs grant cycles to fund individual researchers conducting innovative and exciting research that will improve our understanding of the condition, identify and test new interventions, and move new discoveries towards clinical use.
To read more about our Current Grantees and Programs click here.
Innovator Award
About the Award
In 2015, HA launched the first-ever Innovator Award for Investigators in Hydrocephalus Therapeutics Research. The goal of this grant is to provide seed funding for bold and innovative research with the potential to transform the field of hydrocephalus through the understanding of disease mechanisms and the development of novel therapies.
Stavros Taraviras, PhD
2020 Innovator Award Recipient TITLE: Professor INSTITUTION: University of Patras GOAL: Dr. Taraviras is working to reprogram scar tissue into functioning ependyma, the cells that line the ventricles. In many…
Read MoreJose Peiro, MD, PhD
2020 Innovator Award Recipient TITLE: Professor, UC Department of Surgery INSTITUTION: University of Cincinnati GOAL: Dr. Peiro is developing a technique to treat congenital hydrocephalus by performing an endoscopic third ventriculostomy…
Read MoreAditya Pandey, MD
2020 Innovator Award Recipient TITLE: Professor, Neurological Surgery INSTITUTION: University of Michigan GOAL: Dr. Pandey aims to test if acetazolamide (Diamox), when put directly into the ventricles, can block the…
Read MoreCarolyn A. Harris, PhD
2020 Innovator Award Recipient TITLE: Assistant Professor INSTITUTION: Wayne State University GOAL: Dr. Caroyln Harris is focused on understanding the differences in how immune cells in the brain react after…
Read MoreBrandon A. Miller, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky
This project will determine if antioxidant therapy can reduce brain injury after intraventricular hemorrhage and post-hemorrhagic hydrocephalus (IVH/PHH). IVH/PHH occurs in preterm infants, and leads to oxidative stress and brain injury.
Read MoreBernadette Holdener, PhD
2019 Innovator Award Recipient TITLE: Associate Professor, Stony Brook University GOAL: Understanding how disturbances in the way the brain produces and uses energy are related to the development of hydrocephalus…
Read MoreJoel Geerling, MD, PhD
2019 Innovator Award Recipient TITLE: Assistant Professor, University of Iowa GOAL: Developing symptom-specific therapies for NPH patients Project Summary: Normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) is a progressive neurological disease characterized…
Read MoreEngin Deniz, MD
2019 Innovator Award Recipient TITLE: Assistant Professor, Yale University GOAL: Understanding the role of cilia in post-traumatic hydrocephalus PROJECT SUMMARY: The disruption of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) circulation can cause hydrocephalus,…
Read MoreKathleen J. Millen, PhD
2018 Innovator Award Recipient TITLE: Professor, Seattle Children’s Hospital & University of Washington GOAL: Test a new drug to stop the development of posthemorrhagic hydrocephalus. Overview: Dr. Kathleen Millen is…
Read MoreCarolyn A. Harris, PhD
2018 Innovator Award Recipient TITLE: Assistant Professor, Wayne State University GOAL: Creating a shunt catheter that does not block. Overview: Dr. Carolyn Harris is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering…
Read MoreJames M. Drake, BSE, MBBCh, MSc, FRCSC, FACS
2018 Innovator Award Recipient TITLE: Head of Neurosurgery, Hospital for Sick Children GOAL: Using Focused Ultrasound to dissolve blood clots after an intraventricular hemorrhage. Overview: Dr. James M. Drake is…
Read MoreHannah Tully, MD, MSc
2017 Innovator Award Recipient TITLE: Assistant Professor, University of Washington GOAL: Identify markers for infants at risk for posthemorrhagic hydrocephalus (PHH). Overview: Dr. Hannah Tully is an Assistant Professor at…
Read MoreJennifer Strahle, MD
2017 Innovator Award Recipient TITLE: Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery, Washington University GOAL: Understanding how blood is cleared from the ventricles following IVH. Overview: Dr. Jennifer Strahle is an Assistant…
Read MoreDavid Limbrick, MD, PhD
2017 Innovator Award Recipient TITLE: Chief of Pediatric Neurological Surgery, Washington University GOAL: Identify the causative organisms of postinfectious hydrocephalus (PIH) and the patient’s immune response to those organisms. Overview:…
Read MoreKristopher Kahle, MD, PhD
2017 Innovator Award Recipient TITLE: Associate Professor, Yale School of Medicine GOAL: Understand the role of the Choroid Plexus Epithelium (CPE) in postinfectious hydrocephalus. Overview: Dr. Kristopher Kahle is an…
Read MoreJune Goto, PhD
2017 Innovator Award Recipient TITLE: Research Instructor, Cincinnati Children’s Medical Center GOAL: Understand the mechanisms of CSF accumulation in Posthemorrhagic Hydrocephalus (PHH). Overview: Dr. June Goto is a Research Instructor…
Read MoreAristotelis Filippidis, MD, PhD
2017 Innovator Award Recipient TITLE: Neurosurgery Resident, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center GOAL: Identify markers of delayed hydrocephalus following subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). Overview: Dr. Aristotelis Filippidis is a Neurosurgery Resident…
Read MoreYan Ding, PhD
2017 Innovator Award Recipient TITLE: Research Associate, Loma Linda University GOAL: Understand how Germinal Matrix Hemorrhage (GMH) interferes with the CSF reabsorption process. Overview: Dr. Yan Ding is a Research…
Read MoreJoanne Conover, PhD
2017 Innovator Award Recipient TITLE: Associate Professor, University of Connecticut GOAL: Investigate the Disease Progression of Post-Infectious Hydrocephalus Overview: Dr. Joanne Conover is an Associate Professor at the University of…
Read MoreJennifer Strahle, MD
2016 Innovator Award Recipient TITLE: Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery, Washington University GOAL: Early intervention for intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH). Overview: Dr. Jennifer Strahle is an Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery…
Read MoreShenandoah Robinson, MD
2016 Innovator Award Recipient TITLE: Professor of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University GOAL: Understand molecular mechanisms of posthemorrhagic hydrocephalus of prematurity (PHHP). Overview: Dr. Shenandoah Robinson is a Professor of Neurosurgery…
Read MoreKristopher Kahle, MD, PhD
2016 Innovator Award Recipient TITLE: Associate Professor, Yale School of Medicine GOAL: Understand the role of the Choroid Plexus Epithelium (CPE) in posthemorrhagic hydrocephalus (PHH). Overview: Dr. Kristopher Kahle is…
Read MoreMichael Piper, PhD
2015 Innovator Award Recipient TITLE: Australian Research Council Future Fellow, University of Queensland GOAL: Understand brain development and hydrocephalus. Overview: Dr. Michael Piper is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow…
Read MoreJames ‘Pat’ McAllister, PhD
2015 Innovator Award Recipient TITLE: Professor, Washington University School of Medicine GOAL: Improve outcomes in Post-Hemorrhagic Hydrocephalus. Overview: Dr. James ‘Pat’ McAllister is a Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery…
Read MoreAndreas Linninger, PhD
2015 Innovator Award Recipient TITLE: Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago GOAL: Restore cerebrospinal fluid transport. Overview: Dr. Andreas Linninger is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at…
Read MoreLance Lee, PhD
2015 Innovator Award Recipient TITLE: Faculty Member, Sanford Research GOAL: Identify Risk Modifiers in the Development of Hydrocephalus. Overview: Dr. Lance Lee is a faculty member in the Children’s Health…
Read MoreJune Goto, PhD
2015 Innovator Award Recipient TITLE: Research Instructor, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center GOAL: Insights into Fetal Onset Hydrocephalus. Overview: Dr. June Goto is a Research Instructor in the Department of…
Read MoreMarc Del Bigio, MD, PhD, FRCPC
2015 Innovator Award Recipient TITLE: Professor University of Manitoba GOAL: Preventing Neural Damage in Hydrocephalus Overview: Dr. Marc Del Bigio is a Professor in the Department of Human Anatomy &…
Read MoreBonnie Blazer-Yost, PhD
2015 Innovator Award Recipient TITLE: Professor of Biology, Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis GOAL: Pharmacological regulation of cerebrospinal fluid. Overview: Dr. Bonnie Blazer-Yost is a Professor of Biology at…
Read MoreDiscovery Science Awards
About the Award
Discovery Science Awards provide multiyear support for high quality, innovative, and timely research projects by established investigators. The goals of this grant are to expand the scope of promising research studies, increase a lab’s focus on hydrocephalus, and involve junior investigators in conducting the research through a substantial multiyear commitment. In 2018, the Discovery Science Awards were focused on posthemorrhagic and postinfectious hydrocephalus research.
Mark Wagshul, PhD
2013 Discovery Science Award Recipient 2013 HA/RSRI Award Recipient TITLE: Associate Professor, The Albert Einstein College of Medicine GOAL: MR Elastography: A non-invasive tool for the management of shunted pediatric…
Read MoreTimothy Vogel, MD
2013 Discovery Science Award Recipient 2013 Established Investigator TITLE: Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Hackensack University Medical Center GOAL: The role of neural progenitor cells in the development of neonatal hydrocephalus.…
Read MoreJames P. (Pat) McAllister, PhD
2011 Discovery Science Award Recipient 2011 Established Investigator TITLE: Professor of Neurosurgery and Director of Basic Hydrocephalus Research, University of Utah GOAL: Novel neurobiological interventions for the treatment of hydrocephalus.…
Read MoreMiles Johnston, PhD
2011 Discovery Science Award Recipient 2011 Established Investigator TITLE: Professor Emeritus of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Senior Scientist, University of Toronto GOAL: Hydrocephalus and lymphatic cerebrospinal fluid absorption. Overview: Miles Johnston, BSc,…
Read MoreResident's Prize in Hydrocephalus
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Cameron Sadegh, MD, PhD
2019 Resident’s Prize in Hydrocephalus PROJECT TITLE: Intraventricular hemorrhage induces rapid intracellular signaling in the choroid plexus and chronic changes in CSF reabsorption Cameron Sadegh is now a senior resident…
Read More2018: Elizabeth Kuhn, MD
Cross-sectional evaluation of transition readiness in the interdisciplinary spina bifida clinic
2017: Shawn Vuong, MD
CRISPR/Cas9-Based Development of progressive hydrocephaly (prh) Rat Model of Hydrocephalus
2016: Jonathan Jay Stone, MD
Treatment of Hydrocephalus in an Ovine Model with an Intraparenchymal Stent Prototype
2015: Brian Hanak, MD
Toward a better understanding of the cellular basis for cerebrospinal fluid shunt obstruction: report on the construction of a bank of explanted hydrocephalus devices
2014: Jason Blatt, MD
Incidence of Delayed Hydrocephalus Following In-Utero Myelomeningocele Repair
2013: Jennifer Strahle, MD
Early Treatment of Neonatal Intraventricular Hemorrhage-Associated Hydrocephalus with Systemic Deferoxamine
2012: Jayant P. Menon, MD
Significant Shunt Obstruction Caused by Parenchymal Tissue Shearing During Ventricular Catheter Implantation
2011: Ashley Tian, MD
Bilateral High-Grade Intraventricular Hemorrhage is Associated with Male Sex, Younger Gestational Age and Lower Birth Weight, But Not Other Perinatal Factors
2010: Ramin Eskandari, MD
Effects of Early and Late Reservoir Treatment in Experimental Neonatal Hydrocephalus
2009: Christopher Janson, MD
Immortalization and Functional Characterization of Rat Arachnoid Cells
2008: Ellen Air, MD
A longitudinal comparison of pre- and postoperative DTI parameters in young hydrocephalic children
2006: Kurtis Auguste, MD
Greatly Impaired Migration of Aquaporin 4 Deficient Astrogial Cells after Implantation into a Mouse Brain
2005: Jeffrey Greenfield, MD
Intraoperative Assessment of Third Ventriculostomy Success
2004: Jeff Pugh, MD
Can the skull Diploic space be utilized for Absorption of Cerebrospinal Fluid?
& Jay Riva-Cambrin, MD
Pediatric Posterior Fossa Tumors
2003: Martin Schumann, MD
Serum and CSF C-Reactive Protein in Shunt Infection Management
2002: Joshua Medow, MD
Quick Brain MRI verses CT scan for evaluating Shunted Hydrocephalus
2002: Jonathon Miller, MD
Aberrant Neuronal Development in Hydrocephalus
2001: Jake Timothy, MD
Treatment of Hydrocephalus Using a Choroid Plexus Specific Immunotoxin: an in vitro Study
1999: Kimberly Bingaman, MD
Hydrocephalus Induces the Proliferation of Cells in the Subventricular Zone
1998: Daniel Lieberman, MD
In Vitro Detection of fluid Flow in Ventriculoperitonal Shunts Using contrast Enhanced Ultrasound
1996: Martha Johnson, PhD.
Dr. Johnson studied the effects of hydrocephalus on animals, primarily canine, to determine the extent of brain damage inflicted when fluid exerts pressure on the brain.
1995: Richard Fox, MD
Cerebrospinal Fluid Absorptive Site of the Parasagittal Dura
1994: Monica Wehby-Grant, MD
The rabbit Model for Infantile Hydrocephalus: Regional Differences in the Cortical Metabolic Response to Hydrocephalus and to shunting
1993: Charles Bondurant, MD
The Epidemiology of Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunting
1992: Marcia DaSilva, MD
Reversal of High Energy Phosphate Metabolism changes in Experimental Hydrocephalus after CSF Shunting
1991: Nesher Asner, MD
Venous sinus Occlusion and Ventriculomegaly in Craniectomized Rabbits
1990: S.D. Michowiz, MD
High energy Phosphate Metabolism in Neonatal Hydrocephalus
1989: Eric Altschuler, MD
Management of Persistent Ventriculomegaly due to Altered Brain Compliance
Young Investigator Travel Award
About the Award
The National Conference on Hydrocephalus brings renowned clinicians and scientists together with the hydrocephalus patient community. The Conference is an ideal place for young investigators to meet the families affected by hydrocephalus and hopefully strengthen their commitment to a career focused on hydrocephalus, however, few young investigators are able to attend. This award aims to encourage young investigators to attend.
Kathrin Zimmerman, BA
2018 Young Investigator Travel Award Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms in Caregivers of Pediatric Hydrocephalus Patients
Read MoreShawn M. Vuong, MD
2018 Young Investigator Travel Award A new rat model of congenital hydrocephalus
Read MoreRawad Obeid, MD
2018 Young Investigator Travel Award An Early Diagnostic Tool for Hydrocephalus in Premature Newborns
Read MoreWhitney S. McDonald, PhD
2018 Young Investigator Travel Award Altered DNA content in Hydrocephalus
Read MoreEyal Lotan, MD
2018 Young Investigator Travel Award MRI Features of High Volume Lumbar Puncture (HVLP): Responders Compared to Non Responders
Read MoreJoyce Koueik, MD
2018 Young Investigator Travel Award Anti-Siphon Devices decease the rate of proximal shunt obstruction surgery
Read MoreAlbert Isaacs, MD
2018 Young Investigator Travel Award Quantification and Differentiation of Periventricular White Matter (PVWM) Injury in Post-Hemorrhagic Hydrocephalus (PHH)
Read MoreJeff Horbatiuk
2018 Young Investigator Travel Award Using Super Glue to Strengthen Current Shunts
Read MoreAlexandra E. Hochstetler
2018 Young Investigator Travel Award Preventing hydrocephalus in genetic animal models
Read MoreLeandro Castaneyra-Ruiz, PhD
2018 Young Investigator Travel Award Impact of blood on the connections between the cells that line the ventricles
Read MoreMentored Young Investigator Award
About the Award
The MYI Award program was run in 2009 and 2010 with the dual purpose of funding promising research relevant to hydrocephalus while fostering the development of young researchers. The award helps ensure that qualified young scientists enter the field of hydrocephalus research and receive research training and experience under the guidance of highly trained, well-respected researchers who have demonstrated success in their field.
Jay Riva-Cambrin, MD, MSc
2010 Mentored Young Investigator Award Recipient TITLE: Associate Professor, University of Utah/Primary Children’s Hospital STUDY TITLE: In children presenting with hydrocephalus, is ventricular size associated with neuropsychological outcomes: Proposal for…
Read MoreSonia Podvin, PhD
2010 Mentored Young Investigator Award Recipient Kate Finlayson Memorial Research Grant TITLE: Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine STUDY TITLE: Augurin is a novel choroid plexus-derived…
Read MoreYun Yung, PhD
2009 Mentored Young Investigator Award Recipient TITLE: Research Associate, The Scripps Research Institute STUDY TITLE: LPA signaling in hydrocephalus. Overview: At the time of his grant, Yun Yung was…
Read MoreJoon W. (Simon) Shim, PhD
2009 Mentored Young Investigator Award Recipient TITLE: Visiting Faculty, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis STUDY TITLE: The role of angiogenesis in hydrocephalus. Overview: During the time of his grant, Dr.…
Read MoreRamin Eskandari, MD
2009 Mentored Young Investigator Award Recipient TITLE: Clinical Instructor of Neurosurgery, Stanford and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital STUDY TITLE: Early versus late CSF drainage treatment in experimental neonatal hydrocephalus. Overview:…
Read MoreAbhishek Deshpande, MD, PhD
2009 Mentored Young Investigator Award Recipient TITLE: Assistant Staff, Cleveland Clinic STUDY TITLE: Effects of VEGF agonist (rVEGF) and VEGF antagonist (Bevacizumab) treatment on cerebrovascular density and permeability, and learning…
Read MoreDana Moore, PhD
2009 Mentored Young Investigator Award Recipient TITLE: Neuropsychologist STUDY TITLE: Quantitative measurement of ventricular volume and cortical atrophy to improve diagnosis of Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH). Overview: During the time…
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