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OxAAA Study receives Heart Research UK award

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The OxAAA Study has been awarded a Novel and Emerging Technologies Grant worth £247,685 from Heart Research UK to develop a novel treatment for pseudoaneurysm in the groin.

Professor Ashok Handa and Dr Regent Lee from the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, along with Professor Eleanor Stride from the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, aim to develop a new treatment for patients who experience this complication.

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