NEW YORK (360Dx) – A $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health this year has bolstered efforts to develop an easy-to-use test system that will allow patients with chronic heart failure to monitor levels of a disease-associated biomarker at home.

The project, led by University of Texas at Austin chemistry professor Richard Crooks, has been budgeted $555,333 for its first year of operations, which began this past August.