For 60 years, the Texas Heart Institute has been a part of Houston's innovation DNA. The organization's founder, Dr. Denton Cooley, performed first total artificial heart implantation in 1969 at THI. Now, decades later, the institutions third CEO continues to lead the innovation within cardiovascular care.| InnovationMap
The Texas Heart Institute lab creates ghost hearts — organs from which all cells are scrubbed, leaving collagen, fibronectin, and laminin in the shape of the formerly beating ticker. The goal is to use the decellularized organs as protein scaffolds that will once again contract and pump blood.| InnovationMap
Heart health tech company BiVACOR and The Texas Heart Institute announced that they successfully implanted the company's first Total Artificial Heart in a human at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center in the TMC.| InnovationMap
