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Congratulations to Whitney Edwards, Ph.D.<\/a>, Assistant Professor, Cell Biology and Physiology, for the receipt of 2025 Expansion Fund from Additional Venture.<\/p>\n

The Expansion Award enables teams to add new single ventricle\u2013focused approaches and directions to their current work by providing a one-time grant of $50,000. This small but mighty grant is open to both new and established investigators within the single ventricle research community \u2013 and has an efficient submission and award process spring-boarding these studies forward, faster.<\/p>\n

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Congratulations to Whitney Edwards, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Cell Biology and Physiology, for the receipt of 2025 Expansion Fund from Additional Venture. The Expansion Award enables teams to add new single ventricle\u2013focused approaches and directions to their current work by providing a one-time grant of $50,000. 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