Humphrey Wins Grants for Single Ventricle Research

Jay Humphrey, the John C. Malone Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Chair, has received the Single Ventricle Research Fund (SVRF) from the nonprofit foundation Additional Ventures.

The SVRF is an annual research award program solely focused on accelerating research and improving care for those with single ventricle heart defects through multi-year, high-impact grants. 

Humphrey received the three-year grant for research in collaboration with Edward Manning, MD, PhD, an instructor in pulmonary and critical care medicine at the Yale School of Medicine. Their research is aimed at understanding and reducing sequelae associated with single ventricle physiology. 

Additional Ventures is a nonprofit foundation with the goal of accelerating research aimed at helping children with congenital heart defects live longer, healthier lives.

In its inaugural program, the SVRF sought to fund research programs focused on the identification biomarkers and/or functional tools to map end-organ function in single ventricle (SV) patients, and on non-invasive interventional strategies to treat or prevent clinical sequelae in these patients.