Ikaria Holdings, a company he cofounded that year, has already begun human safety trials using very low doses.

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The most comprehensive work on Ikaria has been done by the University of Athens, whose researchers studied islanders aged over 65.

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The Pentagon is funding both Roth and Ikaria in hopes of devising a drug that would keep hemorrhaging soldiers alive long enough to be flown to a hospital.

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Ikaria is pondering various possible critical-care uses.

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In one Ikaria-funded study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine's David Lefer found that low doses of hydrogen sulfide slashed heart damage by 72% in mice after heart attacks, even without inducing hibernation.

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