2020 MIME Seed Funding recipients announced

The Monash Institute of Medical Engineering (MIME) has announced the successful applications from the 2020 Seed Funding round. There were 8 new projects and 1 top-up project (which had received funding from the 2019 round), with $450,000 in total being awarded. See detail.

Central Clinical School researchers are Clinical Champions on four of the projects. 

Keeping heart lines clean

Professor David McGiffin, Professor Anton Peleg, Dr Yue Qu

The ventricular assist device (VAD), a mechanical pump that helps the heart move blood, can be a vital therapy for end-stage heart disease. However, infections on the ‘driveline’, the cable connecting the internal pump to the batteries and computer controlling the device carried outside the body, can cause serious complications.

Monash University microbiologists Dr Yue Qu and Professor Anton Peleg are part of a collaboration that has gained a grant from the Medtronic External Research Program to further research into driveline infection.