A team of undergraduate engineering students from UNSW Sydney has claimed first place at a prestigious international artificial heart design competition in Vienna.
The Mending Broken Hearts (MBH) team won the 2025 International Heart Hackathon Finals earlier this month, beating 13 teams from more than 10 countries.
The competition is the world’s first and only international Total Artificial Heart (TAH) design challenge for undergraduate students, bringing together some of the best emerging engineering talent from around the globe.
The Heart Hackathon challenges teams to design, prototype and present next-generation artificial heart technologies – devices that could one day save the lives of people with severe heart failure.
Cardiovascular disease remains a leading cause of death in Australia, affecting around one in nine Australians.
UNSW’s winning team was made up of 27 undergraduate students from mechanical, electrical, software and control engineering disciplines.
