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According to the news – Today, Cellular Dynamics International and Medical College of Wisconsin announced the receipt of a research grant award from National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to make investigation about the mechanisms that our underlying Left Ventricular Hypertrophy.

Left Venticular Hypertrophy is a major risk factor and common for heart failure and heart disease because of diabetes or high blood pressure.

Cellular Dynamics International and Medical College of Wisconsin will use the funds of $6.255,632 over five years to generate 250 induced Pluripoten stem cell lines from blood samples draw coming from African-American and Caucasian Families have the elevated burden of high blood pressure and are at significant risk for cardiovascular disease.

Ulrich Broeckel, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine and Physiology at MCW and Associate Director at the Children’s Research Institute said that the grant builds on years of their research to identify genes for this disease. They now have the wonderful opportunity to capitalize on the latest stem cell technology to study human heart cells in the laboratory. The technology is truly revolutionary since each cell line stands for an individual patient, and they can now start to study the unique disease mechanisms and test new treatments and drugs based on each individual’s unique genetic makeup. The grant also shows the strength of collaborations between academic investigators and a company which leads to cutting edge research.