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Catalyst Partnership Grants

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Twenty of the Best - Meet our finalists. Big ideas. Big solutions.

The Twenty of the Best (top 20 applicants) were selected from 223 expressions of interest received. They were selected for their ambitious ideas that are innovative, impactful, feasible and fundable.

Explore the finalists below

Clinical | Data and informatics | First Nations

Medical devices| Policy and implementation | Therapeutics

Clinical

A doctor using technology to conduct heart research

Stroke of genius: telerobotic clot removal reaching rural Australia

Test tubes containing blood

A clinical lipidomics platform for early detection of cardiovascular disease

Medical devices

A researcher looking at a computer screen

Message from the heart: a new solution to screen for blood vessel calcification

Heart technology

Precision heart care: 3D-printed catheters to personalise treatment for individual patients
A person using a laptop to use heart technology

A revolutionary method of performing closed chest beating heart surgery through robotic catheters

Heart technology

Next-generation 3D-printed heart valves: designed to last, built to heal
Stethoscope and heart pressure sleeve

Heart first initiative: personalised heart health across generations, anytime, anywhere
Heart technology

Detecting danger: advanced clot sensor for safer life support systems

Data and informatics

A heart rate monitor

HeartStrong: better cardiac care for every heart
A map of Australia with AEDs marked across the country

Beating the clock: a nationwide network for AED access within a minute
A doctor talking to her older patient while looking at a phone

Unlocking heart health literacy: AI-powered tools to deliver fast, accessible information for everyone
A doctor looking at a hologram of a human heart

Digital hearts: using big data and AI to predict heart disease and test treatments safely

First Nations

A person measuring their heart rate using their fingers on a device and a monitor tablet

Earlier screening, risk reduction and better management of chronic disease – a whole of community approach
A group a people including Aboriginal Australians, standing in front of a community laundry

AIG Remote Laundries project: building stronger communities through washing

Policy and implementation

The public pool in the Springfield community

Springfield Healthy Hearts: local action to revolutionise global action on CVD through a living laboratory
A salt shaker tipped over on a table

Switch the salt to save your heart
Kids running through a field

A Healthier Start for our children with lifelong impact

Therapeutics

A photograph of blood vessels

Plugging the holes in our blood vessels to combat dementia

Test tubes with liquid in them

A breakthrough for heart attack survivors: living free from recurrences
A needle pointing into a jar with serum in it

New life for scarred hearts: regenerating the heart after a heart attack  

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Last updated06 February 2025

Last reviewed19 November 2024