Consortium Overview
The 129Xe MRI Clinical Trials Consortium (Xe MRI CTC) consists of Clinical Research Centers with established 129Xe in-vivo MRI capabilities and independent INDs (or equivalent) within North America and the United Kingdom. We envision multi-site studies with a centralized Clinical and Data Coordinating Center (CDCC) that can facilitate site monitoring, central IRB where necessary, and blinded scoring and data banking for future retrospective studies. We envision future cooperative partners from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and/or the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), United Kingdom, in addition to private corporations and foundations.
Xe Consortium sites are located at the following institutions (alphabetized by location):
- Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) and the University of Cincinnati (UC), Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Jason C Woods, PhD, MD, Zackary Cleveland, PhD, Laura Walkup PhD, Frank McCormack, MD, Raouf Amin, MD, Bruce Trapnell MD, Theresa Guilbert, MD - Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Bastiaan Driehuys, PhD, Loretta Que, MD, Robert Tighe MD, and Tony Huang, MD - McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Sarah Svenningsen, PhD - Robarts Research Institute and Western University, London, Ontario
Grace Parraga, PhD and David McCormack, MD - SickKids Hospital and University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Giles Santyr, PhD, Felix Ratjen, MD PhD, Padmaja Subbarao MD - University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Sean Fain, PhD - University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
Peter Niedbalski, PhD, Chase Hall, MD, Mario Castro MD - University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
Talissa Altes MD and Robert Thomen, PhD - University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Jim Wild, PhD, and David Kiely, MD, - University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
John Mugler, PhD, Y. Michael Shim, MD, Jaime Mata, PhD, Deborah Froh, MD, Alan Ropp, MD, and Gerry Teague, MD - University of Wisconsin, Madison Wisconsin, USA
Michael Rock, MD, Scott Nagle, MD PhD, Ron Sorkness PhD, Loren Denlinger, MD PhD - University of British Columbia / BC Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, Canada
Jonathan Rayment, MD PhD, Rachel Eddy PhD
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