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Pouletty told Forbes.com that Carpentier's approach uses artificial materials and animal tissue.

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Initially the brainchild of Alain Carpentier, a surgeon at Paris' Georges Pompidou Hospital, the device is awaiting approval from French authorities for human testing.

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Tony Kanaan was third, followed by Michel Jourdain and Patrick Carpentier.

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The missing link between EADS, which is better known for making planes, helicopters and aerospace systems, and Carpentier--who won a Lasker Prize last year for his work on prosthetic heart valves--is largely due to the late Jean-Luc Lagardere.

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