Researchers at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and OSU Medical Center Receive $1.4M from NIH for Heart Disease Research and Training

The National Institutes of Health have awarded researchers from Nationwide Children’s Hospital and The Ohio State University Medical Center a five-year $1.4 million grant to provide in-depth training in congenital and acquired heart disease in both pediatric and adult patients.

This is the first training program in the country to focus on cardiovascular disease as a continuum from fetal life throughout adulthood and into senior life.  

“Cardiovascular disease does not begin in adulthood.  One of our research priorities is to discover more about how and why adult cardiac disease starts in childhood,” says Pamela A. Lucchesi, PhD, director of the Center for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research at Nationwide Children’s.  “Learning about adult heart disease predictors in the pediatric population will lead us to more options for early intervention with pediatric patients and prevention of adult heart disease later in life.”  

The award not only expands the opportunities for training and research, but it also fosters the collaboration among the area’s pediatric and adult care clinicians.

For more details, see the release from Nationwide Children’s.