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Show Research Parle begins with heart facility artificial hearts in the chests of patients locally. However, implantation of artificial artifi-cial hearts in human subjects is still far in the future. Hearts have been developed for use in animals, but, according to Mr. Harker, the most successful total heart replacement has lasted only days. He said a total replacement heart will probably not be developed for use in humans for a number of years. Use Calves in Research The test facility will use calves in their research, because the chest and heart size of , p ,r about the same as that nf f human. at of adult Key universities acro nation are expressing their k in the progiXe ' ing same of their best , candidates for empSrt"15 15 facility. Mr. Har "3 -ruiters for the J already visited the UniveL Southern California, S " yofCahforniaatiS': the Umversity of Washington d Eventually, the test fir staff will number ab.a require an annual expenditure of about SLS-milHon on J equipment and supplies. and evaluate heart devices, and second, to shorten the time required to move such devices from prototype stage to useful performance in patients. Have Highly Skilled Surgeons Mr. Harker said that Salt Lake City hospitals have a corps of highly-skilled cardiovascular surgeons sur-geons recognized nationally by scientific communities and universities univer-sities involved in bioengineering research. Test facility administrators envision the day when cardiovascular cardiovas-cular surgeons will be implanting Construction is underway on the Artificial Heart Test and Evaluation Eval-uation Facility, the first building to go up in the University's 300-acre 300-acre Research Park. Reed B. Harker, director of the new research facility, said that funds for the building finances are being loaned by the Kennecott Copper Corp., the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Zions First National Bank. Once construction is completed, the $2.5-million building will be leased for a 1 0-year period to the National Heart and Lung Institute. Insti-tute. Mr. Harker, who worked in management and instrumentation in the space industry for 14 year, said that his former position of the Jet Propulsion Labs provided him with management and system design experience directly applicable applica-ble to this project. Will Combine Various Disciplines The Research Park facility will combine the technical disciplines of medicine, computer analysis and engineering into a system design. Mr. Harker -stressed that the research facility will not develop artificial hearts. It will be concerned con-cerned only with instrumenting hearts developed by other institutions, institu-tions, to determine the effectiveness effective-ness of artificial hearts implanted in animals and humans. "If an artificial heart is developed devel-oped somewhere in America, it is likely to be tested right here in Utah," Mr. Harker said. The heart test facility has a two-fold mission: First, to test |