The Texas Heart Institute’s Innovative Device Engineering & Applications (IDEA) Lab (IMAGE) Texas Heart Institute Caption Through a new four-year, $7.8 million Department of Defense grant awarded to the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), Yaxin Wang, PhD (seated left), O.H. Frazier, MD (seated right), and their colleagues in The Texas Heart Institute’s Innovative Device Engineering & Applications (IDEA) Lab will collaborate with researchers at Georgia Tech, North Carolina State University and Rice University to develop a novel LVAD as an alternative treatment option to cardiac transplantation and long-term support in end-stage heart failure. Credit © THE TEXAS HEART INSTITUTE 2024 Usage Restrictions None License Original content Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert system.