2010-2011 Awards

Each year Saving tiny Hearts seeks to award funding to the most promising research projects.  In November 2010, our Medical Review Board reviewed funding requests from all over the country and recommend the projects offering the most promise.  Based on those recommendations, Saviny tiny Hearts funded the projects detailed below.

Total Funding Awarded:

• $334,156
• Four Promising Projects

Projects funding awarded in 2010-2011:

• Mechanisms in the Pathogenesis of HLHS
  Principle Investigator – Dr. Pirooz Eghtesady
  Washington University
• Fetal and Postnatal Effects of Hypoxia on Neuro Outcome in Congenital Heart Disease
  Principle Investigators – Richard A. Jonas, MD and Mary T. Donofrio, MD
  Children's National Medical Center
• Unbalanced Atrioventricular Septal Defect: A CHSS Inception Cohort Study
  Principle Investigator – David M. Overman, MD
  Children's Hospital & Clinics of Minnesota
• 3-D Cardiac Tissue Engineering: Using Decellularized Scaffolds For Engineering Whole Heart
  Principle Investigator – Sunjay Kaushal, MD, PHD
  Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago
  Second Year Funding