Matters Of India’s First ‘Artificial Heart’: As LVAD Set For Animal Trials In March 2025, IIT-K Expert Recounts Journey

Dr Amitabha Bandyopadhyay, head, Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, IIT-Kanpur, under whose guidance the LVAD was built, called animal trials a significant move towards creating an affordable, homegrown solution for end-stage heart failure, which would pave the way for human trials