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21st Century Medicine

NIH grant to be used for heart preservation research

Published in Cardiovascular Device Liability Week, October 31st, 2004

21st Century Medicine (21CM) has received a phase II grant of $900,000 from the Small Business Innovation Research program of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The grant will enable the research and development company to pursue solutions and processes for preserving hearts that is expected to dramatically improve the transplantation of human hearts.

This grant follows the successful completion of a previous phase I grant of $150,000 in which a device designed and built by 21CM was successfully used at the University of Rochester in New York State to preserve dog hearts for 24 hours by simple storage on ice.

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