UW-Madison will receive a grant of nearly $9.8 million over the course of the next five years from the National Heart, Blood and Lung Institute for research on sudden cardiac death.
After receiving the grant, several UW-Madison researchers are now in the process of establishing a new program for studying sudden cardiac arrest caused by calcium-triggered arrhythmias.
Researchers in the program will also study specific conditions and syndromes in which cardiac arrest occurs in response to certain stressors, like exercise.
""This grant demonstrates our strength in translational research, in bringing science from the bench to the bedside,"" Dr. Richard Moss, a UW-Madison professor of physiology and the principal investigator on the new program, said in a statement.
Moss added that UW-Madison was chosen for the grant partly because of its strong history in treating and researching cardiac disease.
