Faculty of Biomedical Engineering

We are pleased to announce that the project "Toward Safer Artificial Heart Implants: R&D on Sensor-Enhanced Blood Interfaces by AI-Assisted Artificial Patient Model" (safeHEARTassist) has reached the top of the rankings and received funding in the M-ERA.NET 3 Call 2025.

The project's goals are to develop flexible, screen-printed piezoelectric sensor arrays for spatiotemporal pressure mapping, integrate biomimetic riblets and antifouling biocoatings, and prepare and train explainable artificial intelligence models to detect blood flow risks using artificial patient models. The developed tools aim to enable early detection of complications, reduce the number of revision surgeries, shorten hospital stays, improve explantation outcomes, and accelerate recovery by safer, monitored implants.

The project will be implemented in international collaboration by a team led by Prof. Janusz Szewczenko, composed of researchers from two departments: the Department of Biomaterials and Medical Device Engineering and the Department of Medical Informatics and Artificial Intelligence. The consortium leader is the Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Polish partners include the Prof. Zbigniew Religa Foundation for the Development of Cardiac Surgery, the CHIRMED Marcin Dyner Medical Instruments Factory, the Lodz University of Technology, and Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa. International partners include Joanneum Research (Austria), Bionic Surface Technologies (Austria), and Kocaeli University (Turkey). The project is scheduled for implementation from 2026 to 2029.