Steffen Sammet, M.D., Ph.D. receives additional funding for fetal therapy research from the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital Research Foundation.
After a very successful first year, Dr. Steffen Sammet has recently received additional grant funding for his large animal fetal research project that has the aim to develop and refine novel fetal therapies in translational models of congenital disease.
The Principle Investigators of this project, Dr. Steffen Sammet (Director of Clinical MR Physics at the University of Chicago) and Dr. Aimen Shaaban (Director of the Lurie Children’s Hospital Institute for Fetal Health), were awarded an additional $200,000 in grant funding for a budget total of $300,000 for the next two years by the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital Research Foundation.
The additional grant funding for this multi-institutional and multistage fetal research project in sheep, that involves physicians and researchers from the University of Chicago, Lurie Children’s Hospital, Northwestern University and Rush University, will be used to investigate further innovative fetal surgical procedures, image-guided fetal interventions and fetal monitoring systems at the University of Chicago Animal Resource Center and the University of Chicago MRI Research Center.
