2025

A new marker of blood clotting in heart disease

Formation of blood clots in heart blood vessels contribute to heart disease and trigger heart attacks. The goal of this research is to understand why this happens.

Advanced manufacturing of new vascular grafts

Building next generation vascular grafts with highly controlled architecture that would be effective as off-the-shelf materials for bypass surgery.

Advancing dietary advice to lower blood pressure

Advancing dietary advice to lower blood pressure

Advancing vascular graft development in NSW

Integrating transgenic tools and high-resolution spatial gene mapping to study the effects of comorbidities on vascular graft failure.

Artificial muscles for ventricular assist devices

A new muscle-inspired cardiac assist device to fill the gap in donor hearts.

Exploring Thrombotic Risk Factors at the Molecular Level

Quantitative Imaging At Nanoscale with SUper-resolution (QIAN SU) for Probing, Diagnosing and Monitoring Thrombotic Disease at the Molecular Level.

How diabetes and kidney disease affect heart health

Understanding how matrix protein signalling in diabetes and kidney disease affect development of cardiovascular disease.

Hyperacute cardiac computed tomography in stroke diagnosis and prevention

A new muscle-inspired cardiac assist device to fill the gap in donor hearts.

Implementing exercise for congenital heart disease

Implementing a telehealth model of care to improve access to exercise and lifestyle services for young people with congenital heart disease.

Improving cardiometabolic health for people with HIV

Understanding the impact of a new cardiometabolic medication on cardiovascular risk in people with HIV at elevated metabolic risk.

Improving kidney disease outcomes in heart failure

This project will establish an international consortium to identify the best way to assess kidney disease progression in heart failure trials.

Nanotechnology for longer lasting valve replacements

Integration of drug elution technology to improve the biological resilience of transcatheter heart valve leaflet replacements.

Novel and Safe Anticoagulants for Stroke

Development of novel clot busting drugs and anti-clotting stents for the safe and effective treatment of acute ischaemic stroke.

Reducing toxic lipids for better cardiovascular health

Targeting lipid synthesis or lipid oxidation to reduce accumulation of toxic lipids that drive cardiovascular complications in obesity and diabetes.

Robotic tool to early detect risk of cardiac device

Develop new pre-procedural planning soft robotic tool capable of accurately predicting complication risks in patients with cardiac devices upfront.

Understanding aortic stenosis - the abnormal narrowing of the aortic valve of the heart - and associated remodelling of the heart

Building next generation vascular grafts with highly controlled architecture that would be effective as off-the-shelf materials for bypass surgery.

Enhancing engraftment of stem cell derived heart muscle

To use tropoelastin and platelet-derived growth factor to produce a second-generation stem-cell derived cardiomyocytes product with enhanced engraftment and function for the treatment of heart failure.

Restoring energy generation in heart failure

Fixing failing hearts by repairing the connection between energy-generation and mechanical function.

Manufacturing artificial heart muscles

Muscle-inspired cardiac assist device addressing the donor heart shortage and improving end-stage heart failure treatment.

Blood pressure lowering in intracerebral haemorrhage

Using a blood biomarker for early identification of a stroke caused by intracerebral haemorrhage.

Oxygen-sensitive systems for delivering therapeutic proteins to human heart cells

Develop a delivery system to repair damaged heart muscle to improve patient health outcomes after a heart attack.

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