Bioengineering
Lab Receives Grant to Prepare Artificial Lung for Clinical Trial
Published in Drug Week, August 24th, 2007
The University of Michigan Medical School laboratory working to develop an implantable artificial lung that can serve as a bridge to lung transplantation is entering the home stretch. Thanks to a new $5 million, five year grant from the National Institutes of Health designed to fund animal studies that will move the prototype through the final details of readiness for patients, a small clinical trial of the artificial lung may be just three years away.
“A lot of research has been involved with studying the physiology of the heart and then designing a lung device that uses the heart rather than a mechanical pump – that’s what we’ve accomplished in the last five years....
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Source: Drug Week (2007-08-24)
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