PHI-Funded Research

Prior Awards

THE TENTH AWARD (2018)
PHI awarded its tenth grant to Frans Nollet, MD, PhD and Eric L. Voorn, PhD, Academic Medical Center Amsterdam in the Netherlands for a study entitled, "B-FIT! A guideline to individualized exercise in post-polio syndrome." The two-year grant is for a total of $100,000.

• PHI Awards $100,000 Research Grant to Team from Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam

THE NINTH AWARD (2016)
PHI awarded Louise Rose, RN, MN, PhD, Associate Professor, Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and Mika Nonoyama, RRT, PhD, Assistant Professor at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology a two-year grant award of $50,000 each year.

• PHI Awards $100,000 for New Research in 2016-2017

THE EIGHTH AWARD (2014)
PHI awarded Antonio Toniolo, MD, FAMH, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy, a two-year grant award of $50,000 each year.

• $100,000 Grant Announced at 11th International Conference
• Mid-Study Report: Summary of Poliovirus Genome in Patients with Post-Polio Syndrome

THE SEVENTH AWARD (2013)
PHI awarded $25,000 to a research group from Texas Woman’s University in Houston, Texas.

• PHI Announces 2013 Research Award
• Research Update
• Final Report

THE SIXTH AWARDS (2011)
PHI awarded $25,000 each to two research groups. One was from the University of Michigan and the other was from Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem.

• Grants Awarded for 2011
• University of Michigan Glutathione Study Lay Abstract
• Hadassah Medical Center Jerusalem Poster
• Update from The PHI Research Fund's 2011 Grantees
• Research Update: Role of Oral Glutathione

THE FIFTH AWARD (2009)
PHI awarded $25,000 to team from University of Insubria, Varese, Italy, led by Antonio Toniolo, MD, PhD, Professor of Medical Microbiology and Virology. The study, Persisting Noninfectious Fragments of Poliovirus in PPS Patients: Virus Detection and Susceptibility to Antiviral Drugs, will complete the sequencing of the genome of persistent fragments of poliovirus strains and compare them to wild-type polioviruses.

• Interim Report
• Final Report: Persisting Noninfectious Genome Fragments of Poliovirus in PPS Patients

THE FOURTH AWARD (2007)
PHI Grant Awarded to team at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) for Pilot Study to Identify PPS Biomarker. The researchers propose to determine whether there is a unique signature, or disease biomarker, in the immune system of individuals with post-polio syndrome (PPS) that would enable a more definitive diagnosis of PPS.

• PHI Announces 2007 Research Award
• Interim Report
• Final Report: Regulatory T Cells as a Biomarker of Post-Polio Syndrome

THE THIRD AWARD (2005)
The final report, Timing of Noninvasive Ventilation for Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, was completed October 2006 by the team of researchers from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, who conducted a retrospective cohort study of patients with ALS to determine survival time with early use of noninvasive ventilation.

• PHI Grant Awarded to Johns Hopkins Team to Study Early Use of Noninvasive Ventilation
• Preliminary Report
• Final Report

THE SECOND AWARD (2003)
The final report, Women with Polio: Menopause, Late Effects, Life Satisfaction and Emotional Distress, was completed May 14, 2004 by the team of researchers from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, who conducted a nationwide study of the effects of aging on the lives of polio survivors comparing the problems of men and women.

• $25,000 Grant Awarded to Study Effects of Aging on Polio Survivors
• New Study Reports Post-Polio Women Experience Menopause Differently than Nondisabled Peers
• Final Report

THE FIRST AWARD (2001)
The final report, Ventilator Users' Perspectives on the Important Elements of Health-Related Quality of Life, presents the perceptions of the health-related quality of life of 26 individuals living in the community (Toronto and Edmonton, Canada) with long-term use of home mechanical ventilation due to neuromuscular disability or traumatic injury.

• PHI Awards First Research Grant to Examine Ventilator Users' Quality of Life
• Final Report