CHF Funded Research

Sunjay Kaushal, MD
Children’s Memorial Hospital
Engineering a Heart Valve with Patient Specific Cells
Amount awarded in 2011 — $100,000

Patrick Jay, MD
Washington University School of Medicine
“Genes that Prevent Congenital Heart Disease”
Amount awarded in 2011 — 100,000

Ross Ungerleider MD
Wake Forest, NC /Brenner Children’s Hospital
“Investigation of Optimal Timing of Blood Transfusion During Neonatal Cardiopulmonary Bypass in Order to Minimize Inflammatory Response and Limit Blood Utilization”
Amount awarded in 2011 — $93,178

Meryl Cohen MD
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
“Hepatic Function in Single Ventricle Congenital Heart Disease Before and After the Fontan Operation”
Amount awarded in 2011 — $49,047

Daniel Bernstein MD
Stanford Medical Center
“MicoRNAs Unique to the Stressed Right Ventricle”
Amount awarded in 2011 — $100,000

Bradley Marino MD
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
"Do Serum and Stool Biochemical and Hematopoietic Biomarkers Predict Low Cardiac Index in Patients with Fontan Physiology?”
Amount awarded in 2011 — $100,000

Jeffrey Jacobs MD
The Congenital Heart Institute of Florida, St. Petersburg, FL
“Linking the Congenital Heart Surgery Database of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons with the Congenital Heart Surgeon’s Society Database”
Amount awarded in 2011 — $100,00

Jane W. Newburger, M.D., M.P.H.
Children’s Hospital Corporation
The Relation of Regional Brain Structure to Long-term Development and Behavior in d-TGA Patients
Amount awarded in 2010 — $89,750
Amount awarded in 2011 — $45,590
Jeffrey Phillip Jacobs, MD, FACS, FACC, FCCP
The Congenital Heart Institute of Florida
“Creation of a Visual Encyclopedia Illustrating the Terms and Definitions of The International Paediatric and Congenital Cardiac Code, a system of nomenclature developed by The International Society for Nomenclature of Paediatric and CHD
Amount awarded in 2010 — $50,000
Amount awarded in 2011 — $50,000
Constantine Mavroudis, MD
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Fontan Conversion/Arrhythmia Surgery Long-term Database
Amount awarded in 2010 — $50,000
Amount awarded in 2011 — $50,000
Paul Grossfeld, MD
The Regents of the University of California
“The role of ETS-1 in the Neural Crest in Cardiac Development and Disease”
Amount awarded in 2010 — $75,000
Amount awarded in 2011 — $75,000
Marlene Rabinovitch, M.D.
Stanford University School of Medicine
Computationally Guided Design of Biodegradable Drug Eluting Stents for the Treatment and Reversal of Vascular Stenoses in Children with Congenital Heart Defects
Amount awarded in 2008 — $100,000
Amount awarded in 2010 — $100,000
Julie A. Brothers, M.D.
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Determining the Natural and “Unnatural” History of Anomalous Aortic Origin of a Coronary Artery with an Interarterial Course
Amount awarded in 2008 — $50,000
Amount awarded in 2009 — $50,000
Sunjay Kaushal, M.D., PhD
Children’s Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL
Cell Based Therapy for Congenital Cardiomyopathy Using Endogenous Cardiac Stem Cells
Amount awarded in 2008 — $100,000
Amount awarded in 2009 — $100,000
Emile Bacha, M.D.
Children’s Hospital Boston
Human Factors and Patient Safety During Congenital Heart Surgery
Amount awarded in 2007 — $39,750
Amount awarded in 2008 — $36,750