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US FDA Grants the BiVACOR total Artificial Heart IDE Approval for First-in-Human Early Feasibility Study

Nov 29th, 2023

The study is anticipated to commence in 2024 and will pave the way for a subsequent pivotal study.
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BiVACOR Receives $18 Million in Funding to Move the Total Artificial Heart Through First in Human Studies

Mar 29th, 2023

Funds will support studies of its Total Artificial Heart for the first in human early feasibility studies.
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BiVACOR at Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

Sep 14th, 2021

BiVACOR moves in to GCHKP to collaborate with Griffith University.
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Artificial heart co. BiVACOR nabs $22M in Series B, grant funding

May 19th, 2021

Houston-based BiVACOR, a preclinical medical device company, raised $22 million through a Series B capital raise and a grant award.
Posted in The Business Journals

How to Build an Artificial Heart

March 1st, 2021

Millions of hearts fail each year. Why can’t we replace them?
Posted in The New Yorker

NASA Johnson Space Center to Assist BiVACOR Inc. with Artificial Heart System

October 1st, 2019

NASA’s Johnson Space Center is pairing with BiVACOR, Inc., to improve the robustness and reliability of the company’s Total Artificial Heart system.
Posted in NASA roundup reads and NASA.gov

This Maglev Heart Could Keep Cardiac Patients Alive

August 22nd, 2019

Inside Bivacor’s artificial heart, a levitating disk spins 2000 times per minute to keep blood flowing.
Posted in IEEE Spectrum

The artificial heart that could replace transplants

February 16th, 2017

Daniel Timms spent his childhood learning the mechanics of plumbing from his father. Today he is using that knowledge to create a ground-breaking artificial heart device with the potential to prolong the lives of millions of people with heart failure.
Posted in Australia Unlimited

Completely Artificial Hearts: Coming to a Chest Cavity Near You

December 29th, 2016

For patients with congestive heart failure, mechanical replacements can’t come soon enough.
Posted in IEEE

Beating the odds - BiVACOR artificial heart: Daniel Timms’ stroke of genius.

Mach 4th, 2016

A miracle small enough to be implanted inside a child so that they can walk, run, eat, drink, dance and live fully independently without a human heart and without a pulse.
Posted in The Australian

Living without a pulse: Engineering a better artificial heart

December 5th, 2013

Scientists at the Texas Heart Institute are working to create a permanent artificial heart. The new heart device propels blood through the body, rather than pumps it. Two magnetic fields control the blades’ oscillations, which rotate about 2,000 times a minute.
Posted in CNN

Artificial heart inventor honoured as QUT Young Alumnus

July 24th, 2013

Dr Daniel Timms’ work was honoured with the QUT Young Alumnus of the Year award at the annual Outstanding Alumni Awards at the Brisbance Convention and Exhibition Centre this week.
Posted in QUT News

Donor brings inventor of artificial heart closer to Houston

April 7th, 2013

Australian engineer’s device has lots of believers here

By Eric Berger | January 12, 2013 | Updated: January 14, 2013 4:43pm

The world’s elite heart surgeons have long and fruitlessly sought to develop a replacement for the muscle continually thumping inside our chests.
Could it really be, then, that a 39-year-old mechanical engineer from Australia’s Gold Coast will succeed where the luminous DeBakeys, Cooleys, Jarviks and Fraziers failed?
Some sharp people in Houston already think so. In fact, they’re betting $2.1 million that Aussie Daniel Timms is the bloke for the job.
Among the believers are Dr. Denton Cooley, who founded the Texas Heart Institute 50 years ago, and Dr. Bud Frazier, a surgeon there who has transplanted more hearts than anyone in the world, and a principal in the development of multiple heart pumps and artificial hearts.
Posted in Houston Chronicle

Thirty-one Queensland innovators win $50k each

December 1st, 2011

An artificial heart and a modular bathroom for the mining industry are among the 31 innovations to win up to $50,000 funding as part of a program titled What’s your big idea Queensland?
Posted in Smart Company