Vanderbilt Researcher Receives $6M to Study Pulmonary Hypertension, Other Heart Diseases
Dave Merryman, a researcher at Tennessee’s Vanderbilt University, has received $6 million to develop new treatments for pulmonary hypertension and other heart diseases. His research focuses on drugs initially intended to treat rheumatoid arthritis, and knowledge from failures of weight-loss drugs. Merryman, an associate professor of biomedical engineering, is currently developing treatments for heart…