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Thursday, October 6, 2016

MIT shares $75 million grant to fight heart disease : mit





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MIT shares $75 million grant to fight heart disease

MIT shares $75 million grant to fight heart disease
MIT shares $75 million grant to fight heart disease
MIT is one of the institutions that will share the One Brave Idea Research Award to pursue new biomarkers for atherosclerosis — the hardening of the arteries that kills about 500,000 people in the United States every year.The American Heart Association (AHA), Verily Life Sciences (formerly Google Life Sciences), and AstraZeneca launched the One Brave Idea program earlier this year, and the winners of the five-year, $75 million award were announced today.At the core of the proposal is a collaboration between the Brigham and Women's Hospital and MIT.The research team will be led by Calum MacRae, chief of cardiovascular medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the MIT effort will be led by Elazer R. Edelman, the Thomas D. and Virginia W. Cabot Professor of Health Sciences and Technology in MIT's Institute for Medical Engineering and Science.


by the same token on statnews

Big data approach to heart disease wins $75 million award

Big data approach to heart disease wins $75 million award
Big data approach to heart disease wins $75 million award
Cancer research may be sucking up all the headlines lately, what with the White House launching its cancer moonshot and technology billionaires sinking hundreds of millions of dollars into a hot new field of immunotherapy.But heart disease still kills more people every year, both worldwide (7 million deaths per year) and in the US (614,000), and a study published this summer found that the rate of decline in deaths from the disease has stalled since 2011.The American Heart Association, the Verily Life Sciences unit of Alphabet, and AstraZeneca think $75 million over five years to a single researcher might change that.The three announced on Wednesday that their "One Brave Idea" research award will go to Dr. Calum MacRae, chief of cardiovascular medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, to support what they called "his visionary approach to understanding and addressing coronary heart disease and its devastating consequences."The One Brave Idea competition, announced in January, attracted hundreds of entries for what will be the largest one-time award to a single team researching coronary heart disease and the largest one-time award in AHA history.


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