Euro-Notes

Olympus Research Fund Project Grant Winners 2010

EAES and ESGE are pleased to announce that the following nine of the twenty-one applications have been awarded the EURO-NOTES Olympus Research Fund grant:

Prof. Karl-Hermann Fuchs
  • Markus Krankenhaus - Frankfurt (Main), Germany
  • Transgastric endoscopic assisted laparoscopic cholecystectomy with mini-instruments: A bridge to notes.
Dr. Tessa Verlaan
  • Academic Medical Center - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Closure of large acute colonic perforations: rct of endoscopic vs. surgical closure - a bridge to notes?
Dr. Mark van Berge Henegouwen
  • Academic Medical Center - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Transgastric laparoscopic assisted cholecystectomy - a notes human pilot study.
Dr. Stefan von Delius
  • Klinikum rechts der Isar - Munich, Germany
  • Feasibility of transgastric peritoneoscopy in intensive care patients, periscope study.
Prof. Thomas Rösch
  • University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf - Hamburg, Germany
  • Peroral endoscopic myotomy (poem) for treatment of achalasia: international multi-center trial.
Dr. Mark Ellrichmann
  • University-Hospital Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH), Campus Kiel - Kiel, Germany
  • Systematic evaluation of the efficacy and safety of different anti-infective methods for transgastric notes procedures: a randomised controlled trial in a porcine survival model.
Dr. Erwin Rieder
  • Legacy Health - Portland OR, USA
  • A pure natural orifice approach for endoluminal full-thickness colon-wall resection, addresses important requirements in surgical oncology: a randomized controlled animal survival study.
Prof. Lars Nannestad Jorgensen
  • Bispebjerg Hospital - Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery with endoscopic ultrasonography guided transgastric access for simulated staging of gastrointestinal cancer. a survival and feasibility study in pigs as a bridge to randomized human trials.
Prof. Gyorgy Weber
  • Medical Faculty University of Pécs - Pécs, Hungary
  • How can be reduced the negative effect of pneumoperitoneum used during transvaginal notes surgery.
Acknowledgement

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