Grants & Research

Grants

1. $30,000: Dec, 2000. Cervical Spine Research Society.  Spinal Cord Injury Research
2. $40,000: Parviz Kambin Research Endowment Fund (1999-2001)
3. $25,000: Shriners Hospital For Children, 2003 for Spinal Cord Injury Research.
4. $150,000: Shriners Hospital For Children, 2005 for Spinal Cord Injury Research.

Publications in Preparation

1. Antonacci, M.D., Hanson, D.S., Mody, D.R. and Heggeness, M.H.: A Histologic Study of the Vertebral Endplate.
2. Antonacci, M.D., Mody, D.R., and Heggeness, M.H.: Histology of Osteophyte Formations in Human Vertebral Bone.
3. Antonacci, M.D., Jean-Manuel Nothias, Catherine Humphreys, Alan Tessler, M.D., Itzhak Fisher, Ph.D., and Marion Murray, Ph.D.: Axonal Regeneration Using Transplants of Genetically Engineered Fibroblasts in Spinal Cord Injury.
4. Antonacci, M.D., and Eismont, F.J.: Treatment of Post-irradiated Spinal Infections.
5. Antonacci, M.D., Jean-Manuel Nothias, Tom Parks, Chris Cawley, Marion Murray, Ph.D.  Transplants of Unmodified Human Bone Marrow Stromal Cells in a Collagen Matrix Support Brainstem-Spinal Axonal Regeneration Across Complete Spinal Cord Transections.

Current Research

1. Transplantation of genetically modified cells and autologous cells in spinal cord injury.
2. Marrow stromal cell transplants in SCI, animal model.
3. Clinical protocol for marrow stromal cell transplants in complete thoracic pediatric chronic SCI.
4. ProNeuron, Co-investigator.  Macrophage transplants in Acute SCI.
5. Minimally Invasive Spinal Fusion using the Viper system.