Endovascular Therapy in Acute Ischemic Stroke: Challenges and Transition from Trials to Bedside

Grants

Funding Acknowledgements

Dr Goyal has received research grants from Covidien for design and conduct of SWIFT PRIME trial. Also, Covidien provided partial funding of the ESCAPE trial to the University of Calgary. Dr Goyal has received honoraria from Covidien (significant) and Stryker (modest) for speaking engagements. Dr Goyal has a licensing agreement with GE Healthcare for further development of systems of stroke diagnosis (significant). Dr Davis has received honoraria from Boehringer Ingelsheim (modest), BMS Pfizer (modest), and Covidien (modest). He has also served as a consultant for Boehringer Ingelsheim (modest), BMS Pfizer (modest). Dr Hacke has received a research grant from Boehringer Ingelsheim (significant). He has also received funds for speaking engagements from Boehringer Ingelsheim (modest). He has also received honoraria from Covidien as Steering Committee fees (modest). He is a consultant to Neuravi (modest). Dr Hill has received research grant from Medtronic for the ESCAPE trial (grant given to University of Calgary; significant). He is a consultant to Merck for clinical trials (modest). Dr Yavagal has received honoraria from Covidien for participating in the SWIFT PRIME steering committee (modest). Dr Saver is an employee of the University of California. The University of California has patent rights in retrieval devices for stroke. Dr Saver has served as an unpaid site investigator in multicenter trials sponsored by Medtronic and Stryker for which the UC Regents received payments on the basis of clinical trial contracts for the number of subjects enrolled. Dr Saver received stock options for services as a scientific consultant regarding trial design and conduct to Cognition Medical. Dr Saver receives funding for services as a scientific consultant regarding trial design and conduct to Medtronic/Covidien, Stryker, Neuravi, and Boehringer Ingelheim (prevention only). Dr Saver serves as an unpaid consultant to Genentech advising on the design and conduct of the PRISMS trial; neither the University of California nor Dr Saver received any payments for this voluntary service. Dr Murayama has received research grant from Stryker (significant). He is also a consultant from Stryker (significant). Dr Turjman is a consultant for Medtronic and Stryker. Dr Yoshimura received Speakers' Bureau/Honoraria from Tanabe-Mitsubishi, Sanofi, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bayer, and Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. The University of California has patent rights in retrieval devices for stroke. Dr Demchuk received honoraria for continuing medical education and unrestricted grant to support the ESCAPE trial from Covidien. The other authors report no conflicts.