LOS ANGELES (June 20, 2018) – A researcher from LA BioMed has been awarded $688,013 in grant funding from the National Institutes of Health to improve newborn infant screening. The proposal by Rie Sakai-Bizmark, MD, PhD, MPH is entitled “Newborn Screening for Critical Congenital Heart Disease in U.S.: Assessment of implementation obstacles and application of cost-effectiveness LOS ANGELES (June 20, 2018) – A researcher from LA BioMed has been awarded $688,013 in grant funding from the National Institutes of Health to improve newborn infant screening. The proposal by Rie Sakai-Bizmark, MD, PhD, MPH is entitled “Newborn Screening for Critical Congenital Heart Disease in U.S.: Assessment of implementation obstacles and application of cost-effectiveness