Mission

SIR Foundation is a scientific foundation dedicated to fostering research in interventional radiology for the purposes of advancing scientific knowledge, increasing the number of skilled investigators, and developing innovative therapies that lead to improved patient care and quality of life. The Foundation is committed to fostering the development and enhancement of innovative, minimally invasive, image-guided therapies from inception to mature clinical application and to conduct educational programs in the service of its mission.

What's New

SIR members advance Discovery Campaign beyond goal

Donations to the membership phase of the SIR Foundation Discovery Campaign have not only reached the initial goal of $2.5 million but exceeded it. The current amount raised for this phase of the Campaign is $2,713,419.03 with more donations arriving daily. The initial stage of the membership phase is due to close at the end of 2009, however, the Campaign will continue to solicit and receive donations from SIR members after that date.

Many SIR members have already made incredibly generous contributions. In comparison to our last fundraising effort, IA2000, to which 6 members donated $25,000 or more; the Discovery Campaign has already received 19 member donations of this amount. The SIR Foundation is extremely grateful to all those SIR members who already generously contributed to the Foundation during the Discovery Campaign. Many thanks to all of you. You will be recognized at our annual meeting in March.

For those members who have not yet donated, it is not too late. Please consider making a positive investment in your future by ensuring that interventional radiology remains vibrant and important for the rest of your career. Donating the collections you receive from one major procedure per year for five years will help to validate present and new procedures, guarantee that these procedures will continue to be available to patients and make sure that interventional radiologists will continue to be reimbursed for them.

Even at this early stage we have seen some very positive results from the generous donations that have already been made. As a result of this initial phase of the Discovery Campaign, the Foundation has been able to double the number of grants awarded. The industry phase of the Discovery Campaign will begin in the first quarter of 2010.

Announcement for SIR Membership

SIR Foundation Funding: Research Opportunities in Evidence-based Interventional Practice

IR Clinical Trials Searchable Database

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Economic Stimulus Package

Economic Stimulus Package Will Provide Billions in Research Funding

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PAD Protocol Development

Experts in peripheral arterial disease (PAD) convened in Herndon, Va., on Sept. 4, 2008, to map out the protocol for a high-level consortium outcomes study to evaluate SFA disease outcomes. The protocol topic was previously determined at the Foundation's April 2008 PAD Research Consensus Panel meeting.

The PAD outcomes study will represent a broad, multiyear survey of the current and future practice of endovascular therapy for SFA disease, as well as the factors influencing current trends. In addition, the study will serve to provide long-term data in the PAD population undergoing various interventions.

Read more about PAD protocol development.

Opportunity to Submit Proposals for Carotid Intervention Research

Members who have an interest in carotid interventions have an opportunity to submit a proposal for academic research leading to an abstract or manuscript. The National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR) Carotid Artery Revascularization and Endarterectomy Registry (CARE) program collects patient, provider and facility characteristics; device and lesion characteristics; adverse event rates, including 30 day follow-up and many more measures. Applicants can request funding from NCDR to perform and pay for all data analysis and statistical work. For more information about the CARE registry and to download a research proposal application

Read more about the CARE registry; a research proposal application may be downloaded here as well.

ATTRACT Trial

In 2004, SIR Foundation's Cooperative Alliance for Interventional Radiology Research (CAIRR) convened a research consensus panel (RCP) in order to discuss and establish a research agenda for endovascular venous thromboembolism (VTE) interventions. The expert panel proposed that the most needed research in VTE was an acute DVT trial. This trial will compare the best medical therapy with the current best interventional clot removal method. The meeting proceedings were published in the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology in 2005.

The SIR Foundation began working with Suresh Vedantham, M.D., from the Washington University School of Medicine in 2006 to develop the federal application for the ATTRACT trial. An NIH R01 application was submitted to the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) in June 2007. The ATTRACT trial subsequently received $10.2 million in funding. SIR Foundation serves as a collaborating institution on the ATTRACT trial.