IISc Bangalore student wins James Dyson Award 2021 for inventing active heart preservation container – Education News
Announcing the national winners for the James Dyson Awards 2021, the invention of LifeBox by Deval Karia from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore has been declared as the national winner for this year’s edition.
The project LifeBox has been developed with a vision to explore drones as a transport channel for organs. The inability to move hearts from donor to recipient quickly is a challenge that patients face in India. LifeBox tackles this problem with a system that extends the preservation time of the heart to allow for increased travel time and distances.
Deval Karia, the inventor of LifeBox, said “The project has its genesis in a course taught by Prof. B. Gurumoorthy and Prof. A. Ghosal at CPDM, with a vision to explore drones for organ transportation.
However, we soon realised that without active preservation techniques, drones will not do much to improve the rate of heart transplants in India. This led to a shift in focus: A portable system that can extend the out-of-body viable time of the heart.”
The James Dyson Award runs in 28 countries and regions worldwide. Each national winner receives Rs 1.90 lakh cash prize. Whereas the International winner receives a prize of Rs 29 lakh plus Rs 4,80,000 for the winner’s university. The sustainability winner receives a prize of Rs 29 lakh and two International runners-up receive Rs 4.80 lakh.
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