ASMR MRW® 2025

ASMR Medical Research Week® 2025 (ASMR MRW®) will be held from 17 to 24 October 2025 and we are delighted to announce that it will feature Dr Daniel Timms, inventor of the BiVACOR total artificial heart, as the 2025 ASMR Medallist.

The week is a flagship activity for The Australian Society for Medical Research, and a major highlight of the Australian health and medical research calendar, bringing the message of the benefits of health and medical research to the Australian public.

This annual event features the ASMR medallist tour, scientific meetings and Gala Dinners in most capital cities and professional development programmes for medical researchers. In addition to ASMR events, the ASMR National Scientific Conference will be held in Brisbane shortly after ASMR MRW Public outreach events will also be held, including career events for high school and tertiary students, and an on-line schools quiz.

Each year the Society awards the ASMR Medal to an eminent stakeholder in the medical research community for achievements in raising awareness. Dr Timms is an innovative biomedical engineer whose journey began in Brisbane, where he spent countless hours alongside his plumber father, tinkering with water pumps and constructing imaginative devices. His father’s diagnosis with chronic heart failure ignited Dr Timms’ unwavering commitment to revolutionise cardiovascular care, and he collaborates with global experts to develop cutting-edge cardiovascular medical devices, and his unwavering dedication underscores his pivotal role in advancing cardiac care and saving lives. The ASMR medallist tours Australia, addressing audiences at dinners across the country and the National Press Club in Canberra. The ASMR Medal is presented at the National Press Club event. The tour promotes debate and discussion amongst scientists, politicians and the public, and attracts strong media interest.

Since 1998, a list of eminent scientists have generously shared their experience, their vision and their insights, inspiring, sometimes challenging and always informing, not only the health and medical research community but the community at large.