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Article: Revolutionary New Total Artificial Heart One Step Closer to Reality, Thanks to $4.2 Million Grant from National Institutes of Health.
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- May 24, 2000
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SALT LAKE CITY, May 24 /PRNewswire/ --
A revolutionary new total artificial heart being developed by researchers at LDS Hospital, the Utah Artificial Heart Institute, and MedQuest Products Inc., is one step closer to reality thanks to a new $4.2 million grant awarded to the team by the National Institutes of Health.
The four-year grant is the first award given to artificial heart researchers under the NIH's new Bioengineering Research Partnership program. The award was announced by the NIH's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute in Bethesda, MD.
"This grant reaffirms Utah's world leadership in the development and clinical use of artificial ...