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UK scientists call for Government to prioritise cardiovascular disease Top UK scientists call for Government to prioritise cardiovascular disease in upcoming Life Sciences Plan to tackle the rise in premature deaths

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) causes more than 1/4 of UK deaths. Continued support for research is critical to saving more lives. That's why I joined over 60 @TheBHF funded-researchers in writing to the Government urging them to prioritise CVD in the Life Sciences Plan www.bhf.org.uk/what-we-do/n...

made felt warmly welcomed by Prof. Constantin Coussios and Katherine Baysan - thanks a lot!

took the chance to thank key collaborators in my career, as David Nordsletten or Steven Niederer (impossible to list all, better attempt in my Inaugural lecture at King's, media.kcl.ac.uk/embed/secure...)

"Potter for one day" experience in Oxford

at Magdalen College

honoured to deliver the Bioengenuity keynote - impressed by the great work by Mauricio Villarroel & ‪@profaris.bsky.social‬

glad to see award to supervision excellence to Michael Gray, a healthy sign of a supportive research culture

MAGA’s assault on science is an act of grievous self-harm America will pay the price most of all

Liked this cartoon illustrating this...
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.

Such a devastating picture for the USA's research landscape - so strange times!

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

🥼 Proud co-authors: Devran Ugurlu, Elliot Fairweather, Laura Dal Toso, Yu Deng, Marina Strocchi, Ludovica Cicci, Richard E Jones, Hassan Zaidi, Sanjay Prasad, Brian Halliday, Daniel Hammersley, Xingchi Liu, Gernot Plank, Ed Vigmond, Reza Razavi, @ayoung62.bsky.social, Martin Bishop, Steven Niederer.

💷 Massive thanks to funders, @wellcometrust.bsky.social through the Centre for Medical Engineering (lnkd.in/eZ7Qub9y) and @thebhf.bsky.social

📜 Paper: lnkd.in/e7W2PiqW

🗞️ Press release: lnkd.in/e8AVhmtq

⌨️ Code: anatomical (lnkd.in/d5qC58uA) and functional (lnkd.in/dq_FGux6) personalization

Beautiful example of the ability of #DigitalTwins to infer hidden biomarkers, and of the new possibilities when done at scale.

🙏 Huge congratulations to Shuang Qian, lead author and soul behind this work.

How to measure what we cannot observe?

By model fitting

We have studied 1000's subjects from @ukbiobank.bsky.social and learned how electrical conduction velocity and cellular parameters are affected by sex, aging or obesity, and explain why these factors are linked to a higher cardiac risks.

This is a value that won't shine in University rankings, but a value that funding bodies such as @wellcometrust.bsky.social or @royalsociety.org are strongly encouraging us to grow.

Cheers for a strong international growth at this front!

@kings-bmeis.bsky.social is the best place in the world I know in terms of a multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural, inclusive, open and collaborative research culture.

The multi-disciplinary fun. One of the ingredients that I like the most of my job.

Yesterday I disguised myself as a real doctor and witnessed the incredible orchestration that happens in the EP lab, this time led by Sandra Howell and Aldo Rinaldi

Echoing this press release from the French CNRS

"A French researcher turned away from the United States: the French Academy of Sciences reacts"

www.academie-sciences.fr/communique-d...

A highlight of David's work, on the synthesis of echo images using diffusion models - check out the ability to synthesize crazy views, and thus the huge potential for data augmentation!
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

When you learn more from your PhD student than what you teach them – this is a joy!
This is the case of David, who passed his PhD viva yesterday
His proud supervisory team: @albertogomez.bsky.social, Arian Beqiri and myself
Thanks to examiners Wenjia Bai & Yipeng Hu, and to funder @ultromics.com

Censor, purge, defund: how Trump is following the authoritarian playbook on science and universities I have mapped 35 of the Trump administration's attacks on science and universities to the authoritarian playbook - and consider what it means for attacks still to come

bad news: the Trump administration’s attacks on science fit clearly and neatly into the authoritarian playbook

good news: scientific and academic community has woken up to the threat and is starting to fight back

by @chrischirp.bsky.social

in christinapagel.substack.com/p/censor-pur...

ProCardio Center for Innovation ProCardio Center for innovation, led by Professor Kristina Haugaa, is a research-based innovation center focused on advancing the field of cardiovascular medicine. Our goal is to develop, test, and qu...

Heads up on ProCardio!

A Norwegian consortium making an impact in the management of cardiovascular conditions, spear headed by Prof. Kristiana Haugaa.

Just sat on the panel that evaluated this Centre at the middle of its journey - keep an eye on it:
www.oslo-universitetssykehus.no/en/avdelinge...