Heart

Project Member(s): Gentile, C.

Funding or Partner Organisation: AUSTRALIAN NETWORK FOR ART & TECHNOLOGY
AUSTRALIAN NETWORK FOR ART & TECHNOLOGY

Start year: 2021

Summary: In this arts-science project, Linda Dement and Paul Brown experiment with 3D live tissue printing for artworks and technological developments, collaborating with Carmine Gentile of the UTS Cardiovascular Regeneration Group – using human tissue (including our own), to create 'minihearts' and 'heart patches' designed to repair damaged hearts.

FOR Codes: Biomedical Engineering, Cardiology (incl. Cardiovascular Diseases), Regenerative Medicine (incl. Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering), Expanding Knowledge in Engineering, Health Related to Ageing, Cardiovascular System and Diseases, Tissue engineering, Regenerative medicine (incl. stem cells), Clinical health, Specific population health (excl. Indigenous health)

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.