You have several questions. I think I will start by thanking you for making it clear that you believe that any treatment should be based on evidence and for having the confidence that CIHR can provide that evidence.
Now obviously we can only fund proposals that are submitted to us, and I'll start with Dr. Maggisano. I think his last sentence was equally important: we need proper, randomized, blinded clinical trials.
What I'm asking is for Canadian researchers to propose a protocol for a proper, randomized, blinded clinical trial on the effect of this treatment, this therapeutic approach. And we are open to that: as you know, we do fund clinical trials. Our next competition has a deadline of mid-August for registration and we are open to receiving proposals for clinical trials.
That won't give you an answer in one month, but I think it is the way to go to get true evidence as to whether or not.... And it's the recommendation and it's also the last sentence of Dr. Zamboni's paper. As he says, the results of this pilot study warrant a subsequent randomized controlled study. But we need proposals from Canadian researchers and physicians for such a trial to be funded.