ASAIO to honor Dr. Gus Rosenberg with lifetime achievement award

By AI, Created 4:54 PM UTC, May 18, 2026, /AGP/ – The American Society for Artificial Internal Organs will present Dr. Gus Rosenberg with its Kamal and Narayan Bonde Lifetime Achievement Award in Artificial Organs Development at the ASAIO Annual Conference 2026 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, from June 17-20. The award recognizes Rosenberg’s decades of work on mechanical circulatory support, fully implantable LVADs and total artificial hearts.

Why it matters: - Dr. Gus Rosenberg is being recognized for work that helped shape modern artificial organs and mechanical circulatory support. - The award highlights technologies that moved from development into human use, including fully implantable systems designed to improve long-term patient care. - The honor also underscores ASAIO’s role in recognizing leaders whose research changed the field over multiple decades.

What happened: - The American Society for Artificial Internal Organs will give Dr. Gus Rosenberg the ASAIO Kamal and Narayan Bonde Lifetime Achievement Award in Artificial Organs Development. - ASAIO will present the award during the ASAIO Annual Conference 2026, set for June 17-20 at the Marriott Harbor Beach Resort & Spa in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. - Dr. Rosenberg said, “I am incredibly honored to receive the award. What a wonderful surprise.”

The details: - Dr. Rosenberg’s career in artificial organs spans more than five decades. - He earned B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from The Pennsylvania State University. - He joined the faculty of Penn State Hershey Medical Center College of Medicine in 1975. - He became chief of the Division of Artificial Organs in 1991 and led the division until his retirement in 2023. - Dr. Rosenberg helped develop the Penn State/Arrow LionHeart fully implantable left ventricular assist device, the world’s first fully implantable LVAD. - The LionHeart was first implanted in a patient in 1999. - He also helped lead development of the Penn State fully implantable electric total artificial heart, described as the first fully implantable TAH system in the world. - Dr. Rosenberg has authored more than 300 manuscripts and abstracts and 50 book chapters. - His career has been continuously funded by the NIH, industry and other agencies. - He first attended an ASAIO meeting in 1978 and later served the society in multiple leadership roles, including president. - ASAIO Past-President Dr. Pramod Bonde said the award recognizes Rosenberg as a pioneer in mechanical circulatory support whose innovation first reached clinical use as an external paracorporeal assist device for bridging to transplant. - Bonde also said Rosenberg’s later work on total artificial hearts showed the safety of totally implantable systems with transcutaneous power supply.

Between the lines: - The award signals continued recognition for research that bridged engineering and clinical use. - Rosenberg’s career tracks the field’s shift from early assist devices to more advanced fully implantable systems. - The emphasis on transplant bridging and implantable power systems points to the main technical hurdles the field has tried to solve.

What’s next: - ASAIO will formally recognize Rosenberg at its annual conference in June. - The honor may draw attention to ongoing work in artificial organs, durable support devices and implantable power technologies. - More information and the society’s social updates are available from ASAIO.