WATERTOWN, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Seventy percent (70%) of medications prescribed to children have only been tested in adults. Children are not little adults. While there are FDA initiatives, such as Pediatric Research Equity Act (PREA) and Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act (BPCA), aimed to close the gap, for the past two decades, New England Research Institutes, Inc (NERI) has been working to address this imbalance, and is in the forefront of pediatric research. Today NERI announced that it received an $18 million contract from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the PumpKIN Program for the development and clinical realization of novel pediatric circulatory support devices, such as ventricular assist devices (VADs) and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation devices (ECMOs), with Lynn Sleeper, ScD and Sharon Tennstedt, PhD as lead investigators. This swells total funding for pediatric clinical trials services at NERI to $105 million.
