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Walk into the laboratory of the Cardiovascular Molecular and Therapeutics Translational Group and you’ll feel as if you’ve crossed into a unique and exciting dimension of science. Pipes and pumps, tanks filled with water at precisely 37 degrees Celsius to replicate the conditions of the human body, bubbling tubes crossing over one another–Associate Professor Peter Molenaar’s lab is an intriguing sight.
While any surgery is a physical shock to the body, major surgeries such as open heart and transplant are some of the most traumatic with the longest recoveries. Amazingly, although Cardiopulmonary bypass is used in the majority of heart surgeries in Australia each year, we are still unaware of many of the effects bypass could be having on the body, including the ability to process vital medications critical to recovery.
https://youtu.be/WatEqEkrwx8 When thinking of mechanical engineering you’d be forgiven for automatically picturing cars, trucks and heavy machinery engines rather than devices used to save lives, and that is exactly where...
This is a world first project using fibre optics to create a responsive heart pump.
Meet Dr Jo Pauls, a career researcher whose heart is open to the world. Jo Pauls is an ambitious researcher, working on two major research projects in the Innovative Cardiovascular...
The doctors and researchers at The Prince Charles Hospital are part of many special medical moments in the lives of their patients. Seeing someone who is critically ill make a...
Growing skin cells may be one solution to helping battle cardiovascular disease. Cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of death globally and there aren’t enough donor hearts to match...
Empire Industrial Estate know the value of medical research, which is why they have adopted this medical discovery! Heart transplant recipient and Company Director Tony Stephens is living proof of...
There is a desperate need for more hearts to be able to be transplanted for the thousands of patients in need every year.