"The device is about the size of a AA battery, and it has the potential to help a baby or infant heart keep beating in the face of failure. It's called the PediaFlow, an implantable artificial heart for the littlest, most vulnerable humans. James Antaki, a biomedical engineer at Cornell University in New York, has been developing this medical device for the last two decades."
"But in April, the Trump administration canceled Antaki's federal grant as part of a sweeping punishment of elite colleges and universities for what it considers civil rights violations and failures to counter antisemitism on campus. In total, about $10 billion in grants were canceled, including roughly $250 million for Cornell. "We feel like collateral damage," says Antaki, who doesn't see the link between what he's working on medical device research and accusations of campus wokeness or antisemitism."
The PediaFlow is an implantable artificial heart roughly the size of a AA battery designed to sustain babies and young children with severe heart failure. James Antaki at Cornell has spent two decades developing the device, which reached final research and manufacturing stages and had a $6 million multiyear Department of Defense grant supporting clinical-trial preparation. In April, the federal grant was canceled amid a broader $10 billion cutoff of university funding tied to alleged civil rights and antisemitism failures, with Cornell losing roughly $250 million. The cancellation jeopardizes near-term clinical testing and may delay access for affected pediatric patients.
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