Researcher awarded NIH grant for development of synthetic heparin
A researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received a $1.48 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to support research into Recomparin, a synthetic version of the blood thinner heparin, according to the Triangle Business Journal. Associate Professor of Pharmacy Jian Liu invented the synthetic anticoagulant and hopes the grant money will help him perfect the drug and find better ways of synthesizing it.
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