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Huge thanks to funders: Action Medical Research, Wellcome Trust, Additional Ventures, British Heart Foundation, NIHR (National Institute for Health and Care Research)
Team: João Filipe Fernandes, Hannah Bellsham-Revell, Prenali Dwisthi Sattwika, Mahta Haghighat Ghahfarokhi, Hui Yann Yap, Anna Kiely, Xabier Morales Ferez, Oscar Camara, Julio Sotelo Parraguez, James Wong, David Barron, Caner Salih, Kuberan Pushparajah, Adam Lewandowski, Adelaide De Vecchi and me.
Key for monitoring congenital cardiac conditions such as hypoplastic left heart syndrome, revealing the weak link, the transition from transverse arch to descending segment.
The paper: lnkd.in/dsPcJkM9
How good is the conduit function of the aorta?
Here we propose a momentum-based metric allows for a non-invasive and robust characterization of inefficiencies with distinctive spatial and amplitude precision.
A proud team of supervisors and collaborators in his PhD journey: Milou van Poppel, David F A Lloyd, Johannes Steinweg, Trisha Vigneswaran, John Simpson, Reza Razavi, Adelaide De Vecchi, Kuberan Pushparajah, Malak Sabry, Hamed Keramati, Alena Ulla Uus, Paula Ramirez, Irina Grigorescu, Maria Deprez
More about his journey @kings-bmeis.bsky.social: blogs.kcl.ac.uk/doctoralstud...
🏅 Learning the Hidden Signature of Fetal Arch Anatomy: a Three-Dimensional Shape Analysis in Suspected Coarctation of the Aorta - link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Read about his work (I):
🏅 The onset of coarctation of the aorta before birth: Mechanistic insights from fetal arch anatomy and haemodynamics - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Kudos to Uxio Hermida!
🎓 🏆 King's Outstanding Thesis Prize winner! 🏆 🎓
Won after his hard PhD work to better understand the coarctation of the aorta, delivering insights to better predict its onset before babies are born, and providing a research prototype being tested in the clinic!
At the #ESCCongress 2025, Prof. @pablolamata.bsky.social (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social) shared his vision of how computational models and #digitaltwins can transform procedure planning. Video-interview with PD Dr. Philipp Breitbart
➡️herzmedizin.de/fuer-...
#Herzmedizinde #DGK
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
Liked this cartoon illustrating this...
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
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
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...
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...
