Research In Brief

CircuLite: NIH will grant CircuLite up to $3.7 million in a Fast-Track Phase I-II Small Business Innovation Research Grant to develop a pediatric circulatory assist device based on the same technology as the firm's Synergy Pocket Micro-pump, a small impeller-driven ventricular assist device about the size of a AA battery. Saddle Brook, N.J.-based CircuLite will collaborate with the University of Maryland School of Medicine on the project. CircuLite is currently conducting a European trial of Synergy Pocket Micro-pump (1"The Gray Sheet" Sept. 17, 2007)