US Consortium to grow human heart tissue
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
The University of Washington (UW) is to lead a $10 million tissue engineering project, funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), to grow a replacement human heart. The other partners in the public-private consortium are: Advanced Tissue Sciences of La Jolla, California, the Hope Heart Institute in Seattle, Advanced Polymer Systems of Redwood City, California, and the University of Toronto.
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