To evaluate 3 year progression free survival (PFS) rate of high-risk neuroblastoma patients after treatment with a tandem consolidation of Thiotepa/ Cyclophosphamide and PBSC rescue followed by Carboplatin/Etoposide/ Melphalan (CEM) and PBSC rescue, as compared to historical controls of a single CEM consolidation course with PBSC rescue.

Kim Nelson - knelso62@fairview.org

This is a treatment study for a allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) in patients with sickle cell disease (SCD), thalassemia, Diamond Blackfan Anemia (DBA) and other non-malignant hematologic disorders that are transfusion dependent or represent other potentially life-threatening cytopenias. The objective of this study is to confirm the findings of our previous allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant trial for non-malignant hematologic disorders that are transfusion dependent or represent other potentially life-threatening cytopenias including: • incidence of graft failure • disease free survival (DFS) including red cell transfusion independence at 6 months, 1 and 2 years • overall survival at 6 months, 1 and 2 years

Holly Franceen - hfrancee@umn.edu

This study facilitates the collection and analysis of outcome data for patients with dyskeratosis congenita (DC) or severe aplastic anemia (SAA) undergoing a hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT). Specific transplant related endpoints include incidence of: -neutrophil engraftment at day 42 and platelet engraftment at 1 year -regimen related morality at 100 days -acute GVHD at 100 days -chronic GVHD at 6 months and 1 year -secondary malignancies

Kim Nelson - knelso62@fairview.org

This is a treatment protocol for an unrelated umbilical cord blood transplant (UCBT) using a myeloablative preparative regimen for the treatment of hematological diseases, including, but not limited to acute leukemias. There is no research element except the collection of routine clinical data.

Timothy Krepski - tkrepsk1@fairview.org

The objectives of this study are to assess the following: - Incidence of sustained donor engraftment at day 42 post transplant - Incidence of transplant related mortality (TRM) at day 100 - Overall survival at day 100 and 1 year - Acute GVHD after this second transplant at day 100 and 6 months - Chronic GVHD after this second transplant at day 12 and 24 months

Timothy Krepski - tkrepsk1@fairview.org

This is a treatment guideline for a second or greater allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) using a reduced intensity conditioning (RIC) regimen. This regimen, consisting of busulfan, fludarabine, and low dose total body irradiation (TBI), is designed to promote engraftment in patients who failed to achieve an acceptable level of donor-derived engraftment following a previous allogeneic HSCT. While it will primarily be applied for the treatment of non-malignant diseases (NMD), on occasion it may be used to treat patients with malignant disorders as well.

Teresa Bekkala - tkivist1@fairview.org

This is a treatment guideline for allogeneic hemapoetic stem cell transplant (HSCT) in patients with primary immune deficiencies. Endpoints include time to engraftment, incidence of graft failure, incidence of chimerism at 100 days, 6 months, and 1 year; incidence of acute GVHD at 100 days and chronic GVHD at 6 months and 1 year; incidence of transplant related mortality at 6 months and incidence of disease free survival and overall survival at 6 months. All endpoints will be abstracted from routine data collected by the BMT Database.

Christen Ebens - ebens012@umn.edu

To test whether real-time feedback during the withdrawal phase of colonoscopy improves quality of colonoscopy and the adenoma detection rate.

Piet de Groen - degroen@umn.edu

This trial is a two-part study (Part A and Part B) of adults with primary membranous nephropathy, ages 18-75 inclusive. Part A is an open-label, PK phase to compare belimumab exposure between participants who have “low” proteinuria (≥ 4 to < 8 g/day) and “high” proteinuria (≥ 8 g/day) at Visit -1. Part B is a prospective, randomized, phase II, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter clinical trial in adults with primary MN. Part B will commence after the analysis of the PK data in Part A.

Patrick Nachman - pnachman@umn.edu

We are looking at the relationship between cytomegalovirus (CMV) and the symptoms reported by women who received chemotherapy for ovarian cancer. We are also looking at specific blood tests and their association with women’s symptoms and cancer recurrence.

Helen Fagrelius - fagr0003@umn.edu

The primary objective for this observational study is to collect general and medical data from children, adolescents, and young adults who had pediatric onset rheumatic disease. This data will be used to evaluate the long-term safety and efficacy of therapeutic agents used to treat these diseases. This information will allow investigators to accurately report and follow changes in current medication use patterns and compare these to proposed standards and current treatment recommendations. The use of a single registry will allow for more analysis of the different therapeutic agents by allowing them to be compared to each other.

Colleen Correll - corr0250@umn.edu

This is a minimal risk, prospective, non-randomized, open label, multi-center study designed to assess the performance of the PrevisEA device in the prediction of GII. MH4 levels recorded by the device at 12 hours after placement of the device will provide a prediction of no GII development or GII development within 10 days after the procedure and is based on a previously optimized and validated MH4 cutoff level. PrevisEA is a noninvasive, disposable device that uses audio spectral analysis of sounds produced by the gastrointestinal tract to predict gastrointestinal impairment (GII). GII is most commonly associated with postoperative ileus (POI), but could be the result of other causes, such as early postoperative bowel obstruction. GII is defined as failure of successful early oral re-feeding in a subject undergoing major abdominal surgery. For subjects who are allowed to resume a diet during the first 24 hours after surgery, a failure to successfully orally re-feed a subject is defined as presentation with emesis, requiring a reversal of diet, or the placement of a nasogastric tube on first postoperative day or later. The device is considered non-significant risk (NSR). The device does not inform medical decisions in this study. Researchers will be blinded to results of the device during this study.

Addie Westman - westm128@umn.edu

This study is looking at glucose (blood sugar) patterns in participants with Turner Syndrome between the ages of 3-80 years old. This will be done by obtaining 2 hours frequent blood sampling by completing an Oral Glucose Tolerance Test and a Mixed Meal Tolerance Test. Participants will also wear a continuous glucose monitor for 2 weeks. Along with the OGTT and MMTT, participants are asked to provide a blood sample for DNA and RNA testing. Participant’s parents are asked to provide a saliva sample for DNA testing

Kyriakie Sarafoglou - saraf010@umn.edu

The study will be a randomized, multicenter, open-label trial with blinded adjudication of outcomes.

Julie Longman - longm021@umn.edu

The purpose of this study is to study the evolution of early life risk factors that may lead to cancer and other conditions. This is a prospective cohort study of families who reside in Minnesota.

Clemen Wilcox - clemenw@umn.edu

To determine the incidence of engraftment (defined as achieving donor derived neutrophil count >500/uL by day 42) in young children with leukemia or myelodysplastic syndrome undergoing a partially matched single unit umbilical cord blood transplant (UCBT) after a myeloablative preparative regimen consisting of busulfan, melphalan and fludarabine.

Kim Nelson - knelso62@fairview.org

The main purpose of this study is to check how safe the study drug is and how well your body handles taking it. The study will also check: • if the study drug works to improve your kidney function • whether the study drug has an impact on your daily life • the amount of the study drug in your blood over a period of time (called pharmacokinetics)

Amy Hanson - amhanson@umn.edu

The purpose of the research is to find out if atrasentan delays worsening of kidney function in IgAN, FSGS, and Alport Syndrome.

Amy Hanson - amhanson@umn.edu

Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy comprise a group of disorders made up of over 30 mutations which share a common phenotype of progressive weakness of the shoulder and hip girdle muscles. While the individual genetic mutations are rare, as a cohort, LGMDs are one of the four most common muscular dystrophies. The overall goal of project 1 is to define the key phenotypes as measured by standard clinical outcome assessments (COAs) for limb girdle muscular dystrophies (LGMD) to hasten therapeutic development.

Allison Johnston - joh21779@umn.edu

In this protocol, we will enroll pediatric, adolescent and adult patients diagnosed with adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD). These patients will include probands diagnosed by newborn screening and their relatives subsequently diagnosed, as well other patients who are diagnosed with ALD due to other presenting signs and symptoms and subsequently were confirmed to have ALD. We will ask consenting subjects to provide a medical history (with verification via medical records), to participate in a semi-annual health survey and provide consent to collect biospecimens. The overarching goal of this work is to engage with families affected by ALD and to assemble a resource of clinical, medical, and biological data that will allow of to better understand the natural history of ALD, and how this is affected by newborn screening. The initial focus will be on patients within Minnesota, but participation will be open to any family interested in the study, as this will be web-based. This registry and biobank, together with other research conducted in tandem, will possibly provide information describing the natural history of ALD and outcomes with interventions. It is anticipated that the data collected will further our understanding of the natural history of the disease, basic biology of adrenoleukodystrophy, diagnosis and outcomes. Ultimately, this research may lead to new avenues for early diagnosis and development of safer and more effective therapies for ALD.

Rachael Eye - eye00002@umn.edu

Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Prospective Outcomes (IPF-PRO) Registry is a prospective registry that will collect information regarding the natural history, health care interactions, participant reported questionnaire data to assess quality of life of IPF participants, and the methods of treatment of participants with a diagnosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) established at the enrolling centers. In addition, blood samples will be collected and banked for future research projects.

Mandi DeGrote - carl1032@umn.edu

This study was reviewed as a JIT under STUDY00006280. This submission will complete the initial IRB review process. We propose to study visual perception in PwP as a window into deviant neural processing. This allows us to use well-developed paradigms from animal models, and to translate directly from basic neuroscience to a clinical population.

Hannah Moser - mose0180@umn.edu

This study is a prospective, non-randomized, observational multi-center study, utilizing a quality improvement methodology to facilitate systematic care coordination, interstage cardiovascular monitoring, and nutritional monitoring into every day practice. Utilizes a national registry to document the impact of these changes on various care processes and outcomes. The aim of this Phase II project intends to: 1) develop and support a robust national registry to gather clinical care process, outcome and developmental data on infants with HLHS between diagnosis and the first year of life, 2) engage pediatric cardiology and cardiac surgery programs in using the registry, and 3) use data from the registry to support and monitor the implementation of QI strategies to standardize and improve care for these infants.

Brittany Faanes - grego318@umn.edu

The purpose of this study is to look at a different type of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) that may reduce negative side effects while still providing relief from symptoms of major depression.

Interventional Psychiatry Lab Study - ipl@umn.edu

University of Minnesota researchers are conducting a research study to learn more about how an individually-delivered parenting program may help teens with self-harm. Eligible parents will be assigned by chance (like flipping a coin) to one of two conditions: (1) Healthy Emotions and Relationships with Teens – A Guide for Parents (HEART-P): a 12-session individually-delivered parenting program that teaches parents skills and strategies to help them respond to their adolescents’ emotions, or (2) wait list: parents will be offered the opportunity to receive HEART-P following their completion of the assessments during the study phase.

PTAD Lab - ptad@umn.edu

This single-blind, between-subject, randomized, multi-center study will assess the effect of cigarettes with unventilated vs. ventilated filters on smoking behavior and biomarkers of tobacco toxicant exposure. The study uses telehealth and brief in-clinic or curbside visits and will also examine the feasibility of remote collection of multiple biological samples. Subjective measures, alveolar carbon monoxide, blood pressure and cigarettes per day will be collected remotely. Biological samples collected at home will be dropped off at the clinic at a brief clinic or curbside visit where the study cigarettes will be dispensed. Smokers using conventional cigarette brands with filter ventilation of about 16-36% will enter a three phase study. Phase 1 is a 1-week baseline period of smoking usual brand cigarettes; Phase 2 consists of 2 weeks of smoking ventilated cigarettes; and Phase 3 where subjects are randomly assigned to one of two conditions: 1) ventilated cigarettes; or 2) unventilated cigarettes smoked for a 6 week period. Weekly telehealth visits are conducted to collect study measures and subjects attend a brief clinic or curbside visits to pick up study cigarettes and drop off biomarker samples. A follow-up telehealth visit will occur at one-month post intervention.

Amanda Anderson - ander411@umn.edu

The proposed study is an individual three-arm randomized controlled tiled aimed at utilizing state-of-the-art intervention methods to examine whether increasing the quality and the quantity of family meals reduces childhood obesity.

Marah Aqeel - aqeel002@umn.edu

The purpose of this project is to provide new knowledge of the relationship between structural and functional changes in cortico-basal ganglia pathways and the severity of motor and non-motor deficits in humans with PD.

Joshua De Kam - jadekam@umn.edu

To measure glucose transport in the frontal cortex and hypothalamus in subjects with T1D before and after induction of impaired awareness of hypoglycemia (IAH). Kinetic parameters for glucose transport and metabolism will be measured using hyperglycemic clamps at 3T at baseline and after recurrent HG.

Diabetes Study - studydiabetes@umn.edu

This study is evaluating the efficacy of MultiStem (drug) on functional outcome in participants with ischemic stroke.

Justin Eklund - eklun063@umn.edu