The second round of recipients for the Congenital Heart Defect Research Awards were announced this week from the American Heart Association (AHA) and The Children’s Heart Foundation.
Seven programs will receive $1,073,219 for congenital heart defect research.
"We are honored and excited to continue our research funding partnership with AHA," William Foley, executive director for The Children’s Heart Foundation, said. "Through this collaboration and our ongoing commitment to research focused on congenital heart defects, we strive to make a lasting impact in the lives of those with congenital heart defects. This $1,000,000 of new research will help bring innovative solutions to congenital heart defect survival rates and care."
The seven recipients are: Dr. Craig Rusin from Baylor College of Medicine; Dr. Jill Heathcock from The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center; Dr. Daniel Kim from the University of Washington School of Medicine; Joshua Vincentz from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; Dr. Andrew Meyer from the University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio; Xiaoying Cai from University of Virginia School of Medicine; and Dr. Ethan Kung from Clemson University’s College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences.
AHA and The Children’s Heart Foundation established the Congenital Heart Defect Research Awards in 2014 to set aside $2.5 million in grants to be awarded through 2016.
In November 2015, the organizations put an additional $20 million into the awards program for research over the next five years, bringing the total the two programs will fund to $22.5 million through the year 2021 -- specifically for congenital heart defect research.
