Cardiac muscle tissue engineering

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/509271

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Heart failure is very costly in the Australian medical system with few effective treatments. We recently developed a new method for generating heart tissue which has potential for a surgical heart failure treatment. We plan now to explore new sources for donor cells from the patients own stem cells, to examine how to best collect the cells during handling and determine whether these methods can provide functional cardiac grafts to improve heart function.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2008

End Date: 01-01-2011

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $1,221,512.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Nutrigenomics and personalised nutrition

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

cardiac myocytes | heart disease | heart failure | myocardial infarction | stem cells | surgery | tissue engineering

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