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Federal grant supports advances in infant heart disease
Published in Health and Medicine Week, March 8th, 2004
Under a new federal initiative to foster "bench to bedside" studies, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has received a 5-year grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) for a coordinated research program in the causes and treatments of heart disease in children. Children's Hospital will receive $3.8 million in the first year of the grant, with the hospital's 5-year total estimated at more than $19 million.
Children's Hospital is one of four centers nationwide that the NHLBI has designated a Specialized Center of Clinically Oriented Research (SCCOR) in Pediatric Heart Development and Disease. The Institute's SCCOR program is a new initiative...
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