SBIR/STTR Research Award
Synchronous Valveless Pulsatile Support Device for the Failing Heart
Award amount
$745,711Program and phase
STTR · Phase IIAward year
2014Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Branch
- National Institutes of Health
- Recipient company
- WINDMILL CARDIOVASCULAR
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- DCM2TK5ZRKK6
- Solicitation number
- PA12-089
- Topic code
- NHLBI
Research abstract
DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Heart failure (HF) is a major health problem in the US and worldwide. Over 100,000 people in the US are diagnosed with end stage HF annually. Heart transplantation is performed in only 2% of these cases due to lack of available donor hearts. Mechanical left ventricular assist devices (LVADs, a type of artificial heart) can allow patients with severe HF to live a productive and relatively comfortable life if cardiac transplantation is not possible for them. Our goal is toimprove the treatment of severe heart failure by developing and commercializing the TORVAD system, which is a valveless, pulsatile LVAD. The currently available LVADs use rotary, turbine-like pumps that support the circulatory system with a steady, pulse-free stream of blood, which typically means the patient no longer has a pulse. It is then difficult or impossible to measure their blood pressure and also difficult o optimize medications for their heart failure. Additionally this pulseless blood flow ind
Technology keywords
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Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Pediatric Implantable Low-Shear Pulsatile Blood Pump with Physiologic Sensing and Control
- Pediatric Implantable Low-Shear Pulsatile Blood Pump with Physiologic Sensing and Control
- Development and Preclinical Testing of the TORVAD Ventricular Assist System in Preparation for First in Human Implantation
- Miniaturization of the low-shear pulsatile TORVAD for pediatric heart failure
- Synchronous Valveless Pulsatile Support Device for the Failing Heart
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS STENT TO IMPROVE CONGENITAL HEART DEFECT MORTALITY
- Head Up CPR and Aortic Occlusion to Improve Survival after Refractory Cardiac Arrest
- Free-Breathing Dynamic Cardiopulmonary Function Imaging System to use with Xenon MRI
- The Next Wave of Asthma Therapeutics
- Bearingless flux reversal motor for neonatal and pediatric extracorporeal life support applications
Research funding history
6 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2013–2019). Reported award amounts total $6,565,818. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase II, Phase I, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Health and Human Services