Blaze Medical Devices Awarded Grant to Help Validate its Blood Damage Assessment Technology

ANN ARBOR, MI (Oct 20, 2015: Blaze Medical Devices, an Ann Arbor-based company developing novel blood analysis technologies, announced today that it has been awarded a $150,000 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in collaboration with University of Michigan Health System Center for Circulatory Support.

The focus of this grant is to study damage to patients’ red blood cells (RBC) caused by left ventricular assist devices (LVADs), as measured by Blaze’s technology that profiles RBC mechanical fragility (MF).

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