How a Funding Pause Derailed an Artificial Heart for Babies

James Antaki’s efforts to develop a baby’s heart were close to success when his federal funding was cut off. The grants were eventually restored; rebuilding what was lost wasn’t so easy.James Antaki, a biomedical engineer at Cornell. He had been developing an artificial heart for young children. Roughly 14,000 children and babies are hospitalized with heart failure each year in the United States.