Detection of Cardiac Allograft Rejection by Peripheral Blood Gene Expression: A Novel Concept of Personalized Approach to Transplantation.

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1051113

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Heart biopsy is required to detect rejection after heart transplantation. The cost of each biopsy is around $7,000 and at least 10 heart biopsies needed in the first post-transplant year alone. The biopsy is difficult for the patients and significant cost for the Australian healthcare system. Thus, it would be beneficial to identify rejection using a simple blood test. Such tool would help to reduce or eliminate the need for expensive heart biopsy and would reduce the cost by about 10 times.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2013

End Date: 01-01-2015

Funding Scheme: Project Grants

Funding Amount: $292,705.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Cardiology (incl. Cardiovascular Diseases)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

cardiology | genomics | heart transplantation | microarray analysis | transplantation biology

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