Aksentijevic Lab

Good day yesterday at the William Harvey Research Institute Research Day where I was honoured to receive the Derek Willoughby Medal and give a lecture. Great hospitality from Dunja Aksentijevic and Sir Mark Caulfield.

Thrilled to see Prof.Mike Murphy @mitoredox.bsky.social recognized at the @qmulwhri.bsky.social Research Day! His groundbreaking work in mitochondrial biology has shaped the field & inspired so many.Grateful for his mentorship over the years.And what a moment seeing these two scientific giants meet!

Registration & abstract submissions are OPEN for #BSCR2025 at William Harvey Research Institute, QMUL!
Programme & info:

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@qmulwhri.bsky.social

📣Excited to host this year's BSCR Meeting at @qmullibrary.bsky.social QMUL (Sept 3/4), together with @dunjaaks.bsky.social with a stellar line up of invited speakers! Check out the website for more info and programme, as well as links for Registration and Abstract Submission: tinyurl.com/3e7xyjjp

Thank you Mike!

Type 2 diabetes worsens the outcome of ischemia/reperfusion in female STEMI patients and female db/db mice with HFpEF cardiometabolic phenotype - PubMed In diabetic women, multiple factors beyond reperfusion delays exacerbate acute myocardial injury. This necessitates the development of sex-specific strategies to manage the cardiovascular complication...

T2D in 🚺 worsens STEMI outcomes beyond door-to-balloon delays & mirrors the HFpEF phenotype in female db/db mice.Sex-specific strategies are urgently needed!Our latest paper is out in Cardiovascular Diabetology.Thank you @mitoredox.bsky.social for your contribution! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40483445/

…Starting to feel very real! 🎓🥂

I had the incredible opportunity to meet my scientific hero-someone whose work I've long admired, closely followed, and drawn immense inspiration from. @lukeanthonyoneill.bsky.social 🤩

Bat power-metabolic profiling of the Egyptian fruit bat Rousettus aegyptiacus reveals distinctive cardiac adaptations The present study aimed to elucidate which pathways contribute to cardiometabolic adaptation in Egyptian fruit bats. Utilising cardiac tissues from Egyptian fruit bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus) and C57B...

🦇🦇 New preprint out!🚨
We reveal unique cardiac metabolic adaptations in the Egyptian fruit bat—supporting flight, longevity & life in low oxygen.
First cardiac metabolomic map in bats!
👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@qmulwhri.bsky.social rossiterlab Fenn Cullen @anjakarlstaedt.bsky.social

Exciting times! 🎉 Longstanding collaborator Prof @anjakarlstaedt.bsky.social visited our lab @qmulwhri.bsky.social today to discuss all things #cardiacmetabolism 🫀 Your insights are always invaluable, and good to explore new avenues for collaboration!

When Mama’s scientific family from #LosAngeles #CedarsSinai come bearing the coolest gifts and become Sofia’s instant #TaylorSwift bffs! @anjakarlstaedt.bsky.social you legend 🙇🏻‍♀️🙏🏻🫶🏻

Looking forward to hosting British Society for Cardiovascular Research Autumn Meeting (Sept 3rd, 4th) at the beautiful and historic Charterhouse Square @qmulwhri.bsky.social @qmulfmd.bsky.social . Exciting line up of speakers confirmed. Save the date!
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Today, we celebrate the birth of William Harvey (1578–1657), the English physician who first accurately described how the heart pumps blood throughout the body. (1/3)

In anticipation (and preparation!) of my professorial inauguration this summer @qmulwhri.bsky.social @qmulfmd.bsky.social , I had some special visitors at work! Still pretty petrified that Prof Aksentijevic senior (aka mum!) will tell me I am not working hard enough! 🙇🏻‍♀️😂 #rolemodels

Happy #InternationalWomensDay2025 to amazing colleagues, students, collaborators, role models and mentors. Too many to tag! And from all corners of the world 🫀🗺️ This may (still) be a man’s world but it would be nothing, NOTHING without us! 🌹💪🏻👩🏻‍🔬

The highlight of any academic mentors career: letting your PhD student know there is that “manuscript accepted” email from the editor in your inbox. Ivana First (PhD thesis) paper ✅ 🎉 🍾#CardioOncology #proudmentor

A day at the iconic Charite Hospital in #Berlin 🤩🧬🥼 🇩🇪Thank you Gabriele for your kind invitation and a friendly welcome. It was a real honour to contribute to the Collaboartive Research Centre 1470 #HFpEF seminar series and engage in 🫀metabolism discussion @qmulwhri.bsky.social

Definition of composure and resilience. Role models of our childhood to live up to!

Fantastic work.
…On highly scientific note, glad to see more Dunjas in biochemical research!

That kind of battering and bruising week unique to academia that leaves devastating trail of dissapointment and pain always reminds me of the wartime Sarajevo photo “You will never defeat us”. Resilience and strength of these women who raised me remain forever an inspiration. #nevergiveup

A new model of experimental diabetic cardiomyopathy using combination of multiple doses of anomer-equilibrated streptozotocin and high fat diet: sex matters. Diabetes mellitus (DM) leads to a more rapid development of DM cardiomyopathy (dbCM) and progression to heart failure in women than men. Combination of hig

Delighted to share our groups latest manuscript introducing a new pre-clinical model of diabetic cardiomyopathy.More importantly our work highlights why (biological) sex matters as the determinant of the cardiovascular disease outcome. @wellcometrust.bsky.social
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So incredibly happy, proud and moved to attend Prof Sian Henson’s inaugural @drsianh.bsky.social at @qmulwhri.bsky.social “Who wants to live forever?” @QMULBartsTheLon @BartsMetabolism Amazing colleague, scientist, human being, friend 🫶🏻🔭🥼🔬🧬

Our paper is out! 🚀Prognostic impact of albuminuria in early-stage #ChronicKidneyDisease on #cardiovascular outcomes: a cohort study heart.bmj.com/content/early/… @thebhf.bsky.social @qmulwhri.bsky.social @ERA @NayAungMD @s_e_petersen @hafiz_naderi @munroe_patsy

Thank you #ESC Winter Heart Failure meeting organisers for a fantastic meeting in #Vienna. Great science and time to catch up with 🫀⚡️ family! @EU_METAHEART @gabrieleschiat1 @ChristophMaack @BertrandLuc_ky @AliceMarino_ @KatrinStreckf @JohannesBacks @JolandavanderV4

Once upon a time, cardiac metabolism experiment results could be summarized in Fig1 panel A and used to be more … humane? Human? 🤯🤕

Huge congrats on passing your PhD viva Dr Ramchunder!🥂 🎓🥼🧬🧫