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A new ground-breaking clinical trial exploring treatments for pelvic venous disorders has launched

SIR Foundation, The VIVA Foundation, and Penumbra, Inc., announce the start of the EMBOLIZE Trial 

SIR Foundation's 2023-2024 Research Priorities

The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) Foundation is proud to announce the 2023-2024 research priorities. These priorities will be the focus of our upcoming research meetings and projects. To view these priorities, click here. 

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The Clinical Research and Registries Division supports Research Consensus Panel (RCP) meetings to discuss critical research areas and determine how the priority topic can be further developed. The RCP is a one day meeting, which is held twice per year. After SIR Foundation Leadership selects a current critical topic in IR, the lead investigator coordinates a panel of multi-disciplinary subject matter experts. Each panelist presents on a specific subtopic and discusses future research needs. - See more at: http://test.sirfoundation.org/clinical-research2/clinical-research3/research-consensus-panel/#sthash.61FzATgR.dpufReResearch PrioritiesSummer 
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The Clinical Research and Registries Division supports Research Consensus Panel (RCP) meetings to discuss critical research areas and determine how the priority topic can be further developed. The RCP is a one day meeting, which is held twice per year. After SIR Foundation Leadership selects a current critical topic in IR, the lead investigator coordinates a panel of multi-disciplinary subject matter experts. Each panelist presents on a specific subtopic and discusses future research needs. - See more at: http://test.sirfoundation.org/clinical-research2/clinical-research3/research-consensus-panel/#sthash.61FzATgR.dpuf SIR Foundation is asking for research priorities that are most important to you or where additional research is needed in IR, including clinical and non-clinical topics. This prioritization allows us to make the best use of our resources, addressing the issues of highest importance to all of our members, the specialty as a whole, to patients and to policymakers.   SIR Foundation requested research priorities that are most important to you or where additional research is needed in IR, including clinical and non-clinical topics. The list of top research priorities will be the focus of our upcoming research meetings and projects. 
Work is underway on the proceedings paper from SIR Foundation’s Research Consensus Panel entitled “The Dr. James B. Spies Summit for Uterine Fibroid Research: UFE and Fertility", which was help on July 27th and 28th via Zoom. Gloria Salazar, MD, FSIR from the University of North Carolina, alongside Jessica K. Stewart, MD from the University of California, Los Angeles led the subject matter experts from Interventional Radiology, Diagnostic Radiology, Obstetrics & Gynecology, and Reproductive Medicine to prioritize critical topics on fertility in patients undergoing uterine artery embolization for uterine fibroids. Dr. Salazar and Dr. Stewart will be working on an RCP proceedings paper with the panelists to submit to the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR). The panelists prioritized the following topics for further investigation: 
 
  1. A prospective study of factors that influence implantation (LIF, hoax 10) and gene expression in patients undergoing UAE or myomectomy over 1 year.
  2. Refinement of a classification system for uterine fibroids that can allow for more focused study design, which may include burden of fibroid disease. 
  3. Conjoint analysis/discrete choice experiments to  better characterize those patients for whom fertility preservation is a high priority. 
 
 
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Additional Funding Opportunities 

SIR Foundation offers an array of funding opportunities that aim to support research and projects dedicated to progressing the field of interventional radiology through the development of innovative therapies and advancing scientific knowledge to improve patient care and overall quality of life. Periodically, SIR Foundation issues a special request for proposals (RFP) rooted in research priorities and supported by special funding available due to the generosity of our members and corporate partners.

 

Additionally, physicians who are interested in conducting a research trial, registry, or other type of study, should submit a letter of intent (LOI). The LOI should briefly describe the projects significance, proposed data outcomes and explain the investigator's intent for SIR Foundation’s role in the project, if applicable. Once submitted, the review committee will evaluate and provide their feedback.

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Driving research that moves healthcare forward

Your Annual Fund gift provides funding to build a continuous pipeline of research that addresses the most pressing questions and priorities in interventional radiology—fueling the insights that inform our practice and make our field stronger and more effective. Each year, the Annual Fund supports research award and grant recipients that foster the passion of young investigators, clinical trials and registries that address high priority topics in IR, educational programs that introduce medical students to IR research, and multi-disciplinary research consensus panels and summits that discuss critical research areas.

With your gift to the Annual Fund, we can unlock the limitless potential of IR to improve lives and optimize patient care everywhere…together.

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