Declan O’Regan

Chain Florey Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Cardiac Imaging (pre- or post-CCT) - MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences Computational Cardiac Imaging Group - Professor O'Regan

🚨Chain Florey Transition-to-Independence Fellowship in Cardiac Imaging is now open! Up to 3 years funding for clinician scientists near CCT.

Join @drdeclanoregan.bsky.social team on a BHF-funded project using cardiac MRI, machine learning & genomics to study health & disease. Apply or tag someone!

This route is taken by twin engine helicopters routing between Hammersmith bridge and Brent reservoir VRP to leave the zone to the north.

First 3D genetic mapping of the heart uncovers genes implicated in sudden death New research has identified previously unknown links between genes and heart shape. By analysing genetic data from over 40,000 UK Biobank participants, researchers at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sci...

New work from @drdeclanoregan.bsky.social and his lab has uncovered previously unknown links between our genes and heart shape

This was achieved by comparing the genetics and heart structures of over 40,000 people!

To read more follow the link!

Sex-specific body fat distribution predicts cardiovascular ageing AbstractBackground and Aims. Cardiovascular ageing is a progressive loss of physiological reserve, modified by environmental and genetic risk factors, that

Body fat distribution predicts the pace of cardiovascular system aging, with sex-specific patterns, and protective effect of estrogen
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"Hidden" visceral fat around organs accelerates heart aging - but fat on the hips and thighs could be protective in women. Read our paper out now in the European Heart Journal. #whyCMR doi.org/10.1093/eurh...

Research Assistant - MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences Research Assistant to support Dr Melanie Chan

🚀 Exciting Research Assistant opportunity!

Join Dr Melanie Chan’s team at the LMS as a Research Assistant to uncover the genetics of kidney disease using cutting-edge genomics and bioinformatics!

Apply here 👇

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Congratulations to Dr Soodeh Kalaie!

Her image "Genetic Rhythms - the fingerprint of genes on the beating heart", based on her research with @drdeclanoregan.bsky.social, has been shortlisted as one of the @thebhf.bsky.social #ReflectionsOfResearch!

To vote follow the link and like the post!

As a “non-coder” ChatGPT is a lifesaver for me when I need to reformat data.

Fantastic welcome from Dr Marc Pfeffer and colleagues @harvard.edu / Brigham - giving me the opportunity to present our team’s work at the Grand Round.

Swift trip to 🇪🇸💃

🌺Azaleas and rhododendrons just starting to peep out in the Isabella Plantation #RichmondPark

❤️Three year Chain Florey Fellowship in Cardiac Imaging @mrc-lms.bsky.social and @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social. Pre/Post CCT in any relevant specialty. Supporting a "Transition to Independence" in your research career. Closes 11th May. #whyCMR www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMR184/c...

Last meeting for me on the @ukri.org Fellowships committee. Great experience and hugely encouraging to see so many fantastic early career clinician scientists.

Didn’t have them in my size sadly.

Very welcome spot of “winter” sun! 🇦🇪

❤️Three year fully-funded post-CCT fellowship in Cardiac imaging / AI at @mrc-lms.bsky.social and @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social. The Chain Florey Transition to Independence scheme offers a unique opportunity for early career clinicians. Closes 2nd March! www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

Time to go. God Bless America. #SCMR2025 🇺🇸

Programme Leader Track - MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences Programme Leader Track appointments are an open-ended contract, which comprises a six-year advanced career development scheme after which you will be considered for promotion to Programme Leader.

We’re hiring for Programme Leader Track positions! This is an outstanding opportunity to advance your career in a discovery science institute of world-leading excellence.

Application deadline is 13 January 2025.

lms.mrc.ac.uk/work/vacanci...

Standoff in the kitchen.

Such a high tide at Hammersmith - and Venus peaking out behind the crescent moon. 🌙

We are hiring! Programme Leader Track positions @mrc-lms.bsky.social up for grabs by up-and-coming researchers with a great start to their career who now aim to establish their own group in a translational discovery science institute of world leading excellence. lms.mrc.ac.uk/work/vacanci...

Huge thanks to our brilliant team @mrc-lms.bsky.social and looking forward to 2025!

Computational with a PhD in some quantiative science, and want to make the world a better place with AI in healthcare? Want to work with some of the most innovative AI groups in the life sciences? Want to work for Europe, across Cambridge and Heidelberg, living in the UK? Two more days to apply:

Image of a PhD student next to a quote by him - “I immediately felt at home at the LMS thanks to my highly supportive research group and friendly research environment. The state-of-the-art building with its wonderful facilities makes it a true joy for me to come to work every day and contribute to the growing body of science in the field of human infertility”

The deadline to apply for our PhD studentships is fast approaching!

If you’d like to study a PhD at the LMS make sure to get your applications in by the 6th of December!

If our world class science isn't convincing enough, then hear what our students have to say

lms.mrc.ac.uk/work-and-stu...

I got the famous @thebhf.bsky.social mug - it was worth all those grant panel meetings!

BBC World Service - The Documentary Podcast, Me and my digital twin Ghislaine Boddington explores how to create an AI version of herself

Hear about our research @mrc-lms.bsky.social on digital heart health from BBC World Service (near the start) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

The @mrc-lms.bsky.social kicks off at the wonderful Royal Institution with talk on #teamscience by @wiebkearlt.bsky.social.

Exciting new #ApostropheCatastrophe today. Is it really so hard… 🇮🇪

Exciting first bluesky post! We estimated trabecular complexity in 50,000 UK Biobank participants to identify influencing genetic, clinical, and lifestyle factors. Trabeculation progresses with cardiac diseases and changes can occur early in pathogenesis.