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Geisinger Awarded $2.8M Grant for Familial Hypercholesterolemia Research

Nov 26, 2019
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NEW YORK — Geisinger said on Tuesday that it has been awarded a four-year grant worth $2.8 million from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to develop new methods for the identification and cascade testing of familial hypercholesterolemia (FH).

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