CHF Funded Research

The Children’s Heart Foundation’s research dollars support the most promising CHD research. Funding recommendations are made by The Children’s Heart Foundation’s Medical Advisory Board from a substantial pool of grant applications.

CHF provides abstracts for grants currently being funded as well as those funded in past years.

Current Research Programs

Emile Bacha, M.D. Children’s Hospital Boston	Human Factors and Patient Safety During Congenital Heart Surgery Amount Awarded: 2007 - $39,750
Vidu Garg, M.D. University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center	Genetics of Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome Amount Awarded: 2007 - $70,000
Edward Hickey, M.D. Glen Van Arsdell, M.D. The Hospital for Sick Children	Preconditioning Against Periventricular Leukomalacia Associated with Neonatal Cardiac Surgery Amount Awarded: 2007 - $43,611
Ching-Pin Chang, M.D. Stanford University	Dyrk kinase and Congenital Heart Disease in Downs Syndrome Amount Awarded: 2006 - $99,839 2007 - $100,000
Jeffrey Phillip Jacobs, M.D. Cardiac Surgical Associates	Congenital Heart Disease Multi-Societal Project to Create a Universal Encyclopedia for Definitions of Preoperative Risk Factors and Postoperative Complications Related to Congenital Heart Surgery and Interventions Amount Awarded: 2006 - $50,000 2007 - $50,000
Margaret L. Kirby, Ph.D. Duke University Medical Center	Normal Cardiac Outflow Tract Development Depends on Retinoic Acid Signaling Amount Awarded: 2006 - $88,073 2007 - $90,711
Brian W. McCrindle, M.D. Hospital for Sick Children	Late Functional Status in a Cohort of Survivors with Pulmonary Artresia Intact Ventricular Septum from the Congenital Heart Surgeons Society Study Amount Awarded: 2006 - $86,308 2007 - $89,910
Lynn A. Sleeper, ScD New England Research Institutes / Pediatric Heart Network	Follow-up of the Single Ventricle Reconstruction ( SVR ) Trial Amount Awarded: 2007 - $50,000
Henry Michael Spotnitz, MD Columbia University	Myocardial protection and support in cyanotic congenital heart disease Amount Awarded: 2006 — $96,938
Pirooz Eghtesady, MD Children's Hospital, Cincinnati	Role of nitric oxide in the increased placental vascular resistance following cardiopulmonary bypass Amount Awarded in 2005 — $36,479 Amount Awarded in 2006 — $36,479
Nancy Ghanayem, MD Medical College of Wisconsin	Neurodevelopmental outcomes and postoperative hemodynamics in children with hypoplastic left heart syndrome Amount Awarded in 2005 — $60,000 Amount Awarded in 2006 — $60,000

See past research programs

The Children's Heart Foundation is a not-for-profit organization that funds the most promising research to advance the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of congenital heart defects.

The information in ChildrensHeartFoundation.org is not intended as a substitute for medical professional help or advice but is to be used only as an aid in understanding congenital heart disease.

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