Each year, the Mend a Heart Foundation selects one or more projects that support our mission of extending and enriching the lives of children born with a congenital heart defect. If you have a research project that you would like the Mend a Heart Foundation to consider funding, please complete this grant application.
In 2010 the Mend a Heart Foundation will fund a research project at the University of Utah evaluating the effect of the drug Sildenafil on the exercise capacity of children with a single ventricle. This drug has been shown to positively improve the quality of exercise endurance in adult patients. Click here to read more about this project.
If we meet our fundraising target, we also plan to fund a project at the Children’s
Hospital of Wisconsin that will study the causes of brain injury occurring during and after open-heart surgery in infants who undergo cardiopulmonary bypass. Click here to read more about this project.
We also would like to fund the cost of 10 children to attend Camp Odayin, the only summer resident camp in the Midwest for children born with heart disease. Click here for more information about Camp Odayin.
Children's Hospital of Wisconsin
Michael J. Danduran, Exercise Physiologist & Primary Investigator
Herma Heart Center
Milwaukee, WI
Research project: Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) as a Marker of Cerebral Perfusion in
Patients with and without Fenestration Following Surgical Fontan Palliation
Funding granted: $17,500
Click here for more information about this project.
Camp Odayin
Sara Meslow, Executive Director
Stillwater, MN
Funding granted: $15,000
Click here for more information about this project.
University of Washington
Dr. Charles E. Murry
Induction of Cardiac Differentiation from IPS Cells
Funding granted: $37,500
Click here for more information about this project.
Children's Hospital of Wisconsin
Dr. Nancy Ghanayem
Herma Heart Center
Milwaukee, WI
Research project: Long-term neurological outcomes of children with hypoplastic left heart syndrome
Funding granted: $20,000