Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have received more than $8.6 million in federal grants to support efforts that could dramatically increase the number of lungs available for transplant - and then save the lives of the people who receive them.
The funding, from the National Institutes of Health, supports cutting-edge projects being conducted by UVA's Victor E. Laubach, PhD; Irving Kron, MD; and their colleagues:
The grants have been awarded by the National Institutes of Health's National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (grants R01 HL119218, R01 HL133293, R01 HL130053 and R01 HL128492) and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (P01 AI116501).
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