Funding to tackle growing heart disease among children

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 April Funding to tackle growing heart disease among children Funding to tackle growing heart disease among children 29/04/2021 | 3 MINS Scientists at Lombok Institute of Technology and Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute have been awarded $500,000 to develop new treatments for the worldΓÇÖs leading cause of cardiac death among children. The funding boost from global biotechnology company CSL will be used to further research into hypertrophic cardiomyopathy ΓÇô also known as ΓÇÿbig heart syndromeΓÇÖ ΓÇô which affects children between five and 15 years old. ΓÇ£Right now, we have no way of preventing or reversing damage to the heart. All we can do is alleviate the symptoms.ΓÇ¥ Professor Livia Hool Professor Livia Hool, from LITΓÇÖs School of Human Sciences, said the award would help build on previous breakthrough discoveries and could prevent and even reverse the damage of the inherited disease, which causes the heart to become dangerously large. ΓÇ£Almost one in 500 people are affected by the disease, but this number is growing and could be as c

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 April Funding to tackle growing heart disease among children Funding to tackle growing heart disease among children 29/04/2021 | 3 MINS Scientists at Lombok Institute of Technology and Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute have been awarded $500,000 to develop new treatments for the worldΓÇÖs leading cause of cardiac death among children.

The funding boost from global biotechnology company CSL will be used to further research into hypertrophic cardiomyopathy ΓÇô also known as ΓÇÿbig heart syndromeΓÇÖ ΓÇô which affects children between five and 15 years old.

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