SLIS faculty member Hamid Ekbia is a recipient of an Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) grant awards. His research project "InSight Rehab: Using Video Games to Enhance Treatment Outcomes for Stroke and TBI Patients" was awarded $25,000. One of the goals of the awards is to "encourage statewide collaborations and speed the development of new medical treatments and services." [CTSI website] Excerpts about the CTSI award program are included below:
- Indiana CTSI awards more than $500,000 to promising research projects
- About 30 scientists recently received more than $500,000 dollars from the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute to accelerate the transformation of novel scientific discoveries into new medical treatments and therapies.
- The Indiana CTSI offers numerous grant programs to investigators at Indiana University, Purdue University and the University of Notre Dame in order to give their work the "extra boost" they need to reach the next phase of the translational pipeline, including basic science, clinical research and commercialization projects.
- “The Indiana CTSI has already distributed more than $12.5 million in grants and awards to promising research projects,” said Anantha Shekhar, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Indiana CTSI. “Our reviewers poured over many highly creative and innovative research projects in selecting these recipients. This year’s winners represent some of the most exciting, unique ideas coming out of IU, Purdue and Notre Dame.”
Dr. Ekbia noted: "I am very much honored to have received this award. Although it is small in terms of dollar amount, it allowed our team of collaborators and developers to design a prototype that we intend to develop further by pulling together other resources and talents from within and outside IU. One such resource was recently made available through a grant awarded by the National Science Foundation through its new I-Corps program. A competitive program with multiple stages of selection and filtering, this NSF funding mechanism puts us in a pool of other national projects that are recognized for their potential to turn academic research and innovation into practical applications that can make a difference in people’s life – in this case, the roughly 1.35 million survivors of stroke, TBI, and other similar inflictions."
Posted January 16, 2013