Australia will spend $50 million building the world’s first long-term artificial heart, after the original prototype was built with pieces bought from Bunnings.
Australia is leading the race to build the world’s first long-term artificial heart, with an ambitious idea that began with a devastating heart attack and an original prototype built from pieces bought at Bunnings.
In the back office of his biotech firm, Bivacor, in the US, there are dozens of these pumps hooked up to test circulatory systems, pumping water day in day out, to show that they will keep whooshing, and pumping, in theory, for decades. Perhaps even a lifetime. Daniel Timms in 1980 at two years old with his plumber dad, Gary, working on his elaborate garden of ponds, waterfalls and fountains.“Daniel’s heart is different,” said Monash University engineer Shaun Gregory. “It’s more like a fishtank pump than a heart ... It’s a revolution. It’s inventing the plane to fly instead of trying to mimic birds’ wings flapping.”
Health Minister Mark Butler said the grant, awarded after an open competitive round, was the third-largest in the history of the Medical Research Future Fund. The father of three has to stay fit to remain eligible for a donor heart. But “once I hit a threshold, I can’t do any more,” he said.
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