Breathing New Life Into Lung Transplants: How Researchers at The Texas Heart Institute Are Redefining Organ Preservation
Sadly, every day, lives are lost not because lungs aren’t donated—but because donated lungs don’t arrive in time, or arrive...
Innovative Device & Engineering Applications (IDEA) Lab
Celebrating Women in Science at The Texas Heart Institute
As the world celebrates the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, a day dedicated to recognizing the invaluable...
The Texas Heart Institute Names Dr. Yaxin Wang as First Female Endowed Chair for Innovative Device & Engineering Applications
The Texas Heart Institute is proud to announce Yaxin Wang, PhD, as the John S. Dunn Endowed Chair in Innovative...
Research Social Delivers Dynamic Afternoon Focused on Collaborative Science
On November 20, 2024, The Texas Heart Institute (THI) held its first-ever Research Social, marking a significant shift from traditional...
ReVolutionary Heart Pump Offers New Hope for Infants with Congenital Heart Disease
A dedicated team of researchers and physicians are closer to realizing their hopes of a new device that will change...
The Texas Heart Institute Leads New NIH-Funded Project to Significantly Improve LVADs
HOUSTON (March 20, 2024) — The Texas Heart Institute® and its collaborators at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech),...
The Texas Heart Institute and Texas Children’s Hospital Partner with Rice University’s New Healthcare Innovation Program
Dr. Mehdi Razavi and Allison Post, Ph.D. from the Texas Heart Institute, and Parag Jain and Satid Thammasitboon from Texas Children’s Hospital are partnering with...
Young THI Researcher Makes List of “Houston Innovators to Know”
HOUSTON (Oct. 16, 2023) — Yaxin Wang, PhD., a young associate investigator in The Texas Heart Institute’s Innovative Device &...
Young Innovator is Reimagining Cardiac Transplantation for Children with Heart Defects
HOUSTON (Oct. 13, 2023) — A young innovator at The Texas Heart Institute is taking up the mantle first carried...
The Texas Heart Institute Research Symposium: Cutting-Edge Innovations Driving Translational Clinical Care
HOUSTON (Oct. 27, 2023) — Renowned scientists and clinicians from The Texas Heart Institute gathered this week for its inspiring,...
THI’s Perfusion School Employs Anatomical 3D Model to Train Students in Cardiopulmonary Bypass
HOUSTON (Sept. 20, 2023) — Yaxin Wang, PhD, and her colleagues in The Texas Heart Institute’s® (THI) Innovative Device and...
The Texas Heart Institute Awarded a National Institutes of Health Grant to Advance Organ Bioengineering
HOUSTON (Aug. 25, 2023) — The Texas Heart Institute recently received a five-year, $2 million grant from the National Heart,...
