{"id":121184,"date":"2021-04-02T18:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T01:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/houston-startup-with-life-saving-innovation-receives-2m-grant"},"modified":"2021-04-02T18:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T01:22:17","slug":"houston-startup-with-life-saving-innovation-receives-2m-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/houston-startup-with-life-saving-innovation-receives-2m-grant","title":{"rendered":"Houston startup with life-saving innovation receives $2M grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/houston-startup-with-life-saving-innovation-receives-2m-grant.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A $2 million federal grant will enable Houston-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polyvascular.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">PolyVascular<\/a> to launch human trials of what it hails as the first polymer-based heart valve for children.<\/p>\n<p>In conjunction with the grant, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.enventure.org\/teachers\/will-clifton-md\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Will Clifton<\/a> has joined the medical device company as chief operating officer. He will oversee the grant as principal investigator, and will manage the company\u2019s operations and R&amp;D. Clifton is president and co-founder of Houston-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.enventure.org\/teachers\/will-clifton-md\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Enventure<\/a>, a medical innovation incubator and education hub. He previously was senior director of medical affairs at Houston-based Procyrion, a clinical-stage medical device company.<\/p>\n<p>PolyVascular\u2019s Phase II grant came from the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, which promotes technological projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A $2 million federal grant will enable Houston-based PolyVascular to launch human trials of what it hails as the first polymer-based heart valve for children. In conjunction with the grant, Dr. Will Clifton has joined the medical device company as chief operating officer. He will oversee the grant as principal investigator, and will manage the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,43,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-business","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}