27 June 2023

The DKF research groups of Mirjam Christ-Crain, Jehuda Soleman and Ivan Martin have each been awarded an Investigator-Initiated Clinical Trial (IICT) grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). This year, a total of seven studies recieve this funding. They are considered to be of particular importance for patients from a medical and social point of view..

Mirjam Christ-Crain

Project leader Prof. Dr. med. Mirjam Christ-Crain, Deputy Chief of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, University Hospital Basel
 

OxyTUTION study

Oxytocin substitution therapy in patients with central diabetes insipidus: a double-blind randomized-controlled trial the OxyTUTION trial


Direction
Prof. Dr. med. Mirjam Christ-Crain, Dr. med. Cihan Atila, Dr. med. Svenja Leibniz, Prof. Dr. med. Dominique de Quervain, Prof. Dr. med. Matthias Liechti

Study design
Randomised, placebo-controlled, double-blind phase II study

Study objective
To investigate the effects of intranasally administered oxytocin on psychological symptoms and socio-emotional deficits in patients with diabetes insipidus

Number of planned study sites
4-5

Number of study participants
112

Project duration
5 years

DKF support
Methodological consulting, Consulting on Patient & Public Involvement (PPI), Statistics, Data Management, Monitoring

Yehuda Soleman

Project leader PD Dr. med. Jehuda Soleman, Senior Physician Neurosurgery, University Hospital Basel

 

EMINENT-ICH study

Early Minimally INvasive image-guided ENdoscopic evacuaTion of IntraCerebral Haemorrhage: a randomized controlled trial


Direction
PD Dr. med. Jehuda Soleman, Prof. Dr. med. Raphael Guzman, Dr. med. Tim Hallenberger

Study design
Randomised-controlled, non-blinded superiority trial

Study objective
To evaluate the efficacy of early minimally invasive surgical hematoma evacuation in patients with intracerebral hemorrhage

Number of planned study sites
11

Number of study participants
200

Project duration
5 years

DKF support
Methodological consulting, Consulting on Patient & Public Involvement (PPI), Statistics, Data Science, Monitoring

Ivan Martin

Project leader Prof. Dr. Ivan Martin, Head of Research Group DBM Tissue Engineering, Head of Innovation Focus Regenerative Surgery, University Hospital Basel

PFOA II study

Treatment of patellofemoral osteoarthritis with nasal chondrocyte-based engineered cartilage(N-TEC) implantation in a randomized, controlled, multi-center phase II clinical trial

Direction
Prof. Dr. Ivan Martin, PD Dr. med. Marcus Mumme, Prof. Dr. Andrea Barbero

Study design
Prospective randomised-controlled phase II study

Study objective
To investigate the efficacy of treatment of patellofemoral osteoarthritis (PFOA) with nasal chondrocyte-engineered cartilage (N-TEC)

Number of planned study sites
7

Number of study participants
75

Project duration
5 years

DKF support
Methodological consulting, Statistics, Data Management, Monitoring