UH Partnering on New Artificial Heart  Technology

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Matthew Franchek and Ralph Metcalfe, both mechanical engineering professors in the Cullen College of Engineering at UH, are part of  a biomedical research team working to create a pulseless total artificial heart.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pictured is a device similar to the less-costly, smaller pulseless artificial heart to be created that will perform the function of both the right and left ventricles of the heart.   

High-resolution photos are available by contacting Lisa  Merkl at lkmerkl@uh.edu or 713-743-8192.

Photos by Thomas Shea