NIH funds research on Human-Specific Computational Models of the Tricuspid Valve

The National Heart Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health has funded our proposal on “Human-Specific Prediction, Training, and Visualization Tools for the Tricuspid Valve from Existing Data”.

Approximately 1.6 million Americans suffer from severe leakage on the tricuspid valve. Standard treatments fail to substantially address this leakage in almost a third of all patients. We posit that these poor outcomes are due to our very limited basic understanding of the normal and diseased valve. Computer models have been valuable in many other areas of surgery and could be critical tools toward overcoming our current knowledge gaps about the tricuspid valve. Through this project, we aim to establish human-specific computational models of the tricuspid valve for predictive simulation, surgical training, and anatomic vizualization. Upon conclusion of this project, we will make these models openly available.

Further details about the grant can be found here.