Computational Cardiovascular Science Team's Awards

Awarded & Funded Projects

EPSRC Doctoral Award, Julia Camps. "Bayesian inference and Machine learning methods for the advanced analysis of electrocardiographic signals".
The Amazon AWS Machine Learning Research Awards (MLRA), Blanca Rodriguez. "Artificial Intelligence for In Silico Clinical Trials". 2018.
16^th Call for PRACE Project Access, Blanca Rodriguez. "In silico drug trials in the beating ischaemic human heart". 2018-2020.
ARCHER RAP, Alfonso Bueno. "Novel risk-stratification biomarkers from HPC simulations in patients with inherited diseased conditions". 2017-2018.
The Safety Pharmacology Society 2017 Technological Innovation Award, Elisa Passini. "Virtual Assay: a User-Friendly Framework for In Silico Drug Trials in Populations of Human Cardiomyocyte Models”. 2017.
BHF Project Grant, Vicente Grau, Co-Investigator. "Improving risk stratification in HCM through a computational anatomical analysis of ventricular remodelling". 2017-2020.
UK Quantitative Systems Pharmacology Network, Satellite Meeting. Alfonso Bueno-Orovio. “In Silico Drug Safety and Efficacy Symposium in Oxford”. 2017.
NC3Rs Project Grant. Oliver Britton. "Inter-neuronal variability in human nociceptor electrophysiology: experimentally-driven computational study of response to drugs and channelopathies". 2016-2019.
NC3Rs Infrastructure for Impact Award. Blanca Rodriguez, Alfonso Bueno-Orovio. "In Silico human-based methodologies for evaluation of drug safety and efficacy".2016-2021.
Royal Academy of Engineering, Distinguished Visiting Fellowship. Blanca Rodriguez."Computational investigations of Cardiac hereditary disease". 2016.
ARCHER Leadership Grant. Blanca Rodriguez, Alfonso Bueno-Orovio. "Safety of anti-arrhythmic drug therapy in response to coronary occlusion, aging and gender: A whole system and multiscale investigation for the pre-competitive development of in silico clinical trials in human". 2016-2017.
EPSRC Impact Acceleration Award. Blanca Rodríguez, Alfonso Bueno-Orovio, Oliver Britton. "Phase 2 of Virtual Assay project: Evaluation study". 2015-2016.
The Royal Society, International Exchanges 2015/R2. Vicente Grau. “Personalised electro-mechanic cardiac simulation with High Performance Computing”. 2015-2017.
University of Oxford, Astor Visiting Lecturership. 2015.
EPSRC Impact Acceleration Award. Blanca Rodríguez. "Software for computational assessment of drug-induced effects on biological tissue". 2014-2015.
BHF Project Grant. Vicente Grau, Co-Investigator. 2014-2017.
BHF New Horizons Grant. Vicente Grau. 2013- 2016.
EPSRC grant. Vicente Grau, Co-investigator. 2012–2015.
BHF Infrastructure grant. Blanca Rodriguez. 2014
NC3R Maths and Toxicology Strategic Award. Blanca Rodríguez, co-investigator. Prediction of human cardiotoxic QT prolongation using in vitro multiple ion channel data and mathematical models of cardiac myocytes. 2013-2014.
KE SEED FUND. Blanca Rodriguez. Workshop: “Industrial and Regulatory impact of Computational Cardiovascular Science”. 2014.
Medical Research Council Industry Partnership Award. "Computational prediction of drug-induced effects on the heart". 2013.
Medical Research Council Centenary Award. Blanca Rodríguez. 2013.
BBSRC grant. Vicente Grau, Co-Investigator. 2011-2014.
Centre of Excellence in Personalised Healthcare. Vicente Grau, Co-Investigator (funded by Wellcome Trust and EPSRC).2009-2014.
Royal Society International Joint Project.Blanca Rodríguez. 2009-2011.
Royal Society International Travel Grant.Blanca Rodríguez. 2010.
EPSRC-funded grant. Blanca Rodríguez, Co-Investigator. Chaste- Developing software for realistic heart simulations. 2007-2009.
European Science Foundation Award for the organization of the European Heart Modelling workshop. Blanca Rodríguez, Co-Investigator. 2007.

Consortia grants

PersonalizeAF. "Personalized therapies for Atrial Fibrillation: a translational approach". H2020, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks. Blanca Rodriguez and Alfonso Bueno-Orovio, Co-Is. (Total Budget: €4.2 million. 2020-2023).
PIC. "Personalised In-Silico Cardiology". H2020, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks. Blanca Rodriguez and Vicente Grau Co-Is. (Total Budget: €3.945 million. 2017-2021).
CompBioMed. "CompBiomed High Performance Centre of Research Excellence in Computational Biomedicine". Horizon 2020. Blanca Rodriguez Co-I in grant, PI in Oxford. (Total Budget: €4.94 million. 2016-2019).
TransQST. "Translational quantitative systems toxicology to improve the understanding of the safety of medicines". IMI2. Blanca Rodriguez, Co-I in grant, PI in Oxford. (Total Budget: €8 millions. 2016-2021).
euHeart. “Personalised & Integrated Cardiac Care: Patient-specific Cardiovascular Modelling and Simulation for In Silico Disease Understanding & Management and for Medical Device Evaluation & Optimization”. European Union Virtual Physiological Human ICT Call 2- FP7-ICT-2007-2. Blanca Rodriguez, Investigator in WP5. (Total budget: €13.90 million, June 2008- May 2012).
PreDiCT. “Computational Prediction of Drug Cardiac Toxicity”, European Union Virtual Physiological Human ICT Call 2- FP7-ICT-2007-2. Blanca Rodriguez, Scientific Coordinator and Workpackage leader. (Total Budget: 4.1 million euros, June 2008-May 2011).

Personal Fellowships

Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowship awarded, Dr. Jakub Tomek. "Diabetic arrhythmia".
Oxford-Bristol Myers Squibb Fellowship. Xin Zhou. Blanca Rodríguez. 2021-2023. "Target safety and efficacy evaluation in chronic heart failure using human-based modelling and simulation".
British Heart Foundation Intermediate Basic Science Research Fellowship. Alfonso Bueno-Orovio. 2017-2022." In-silico investigation of structural and electrophysiological substrates for sudden cardiac death in human hypertrophic cardiomyopathy".
Wellcome Trust Henry Fellowship. Linford Briant. 2016-2020."Functional and computational analyses of the regulation of glucagon secretion in health and disease".
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship: DTI4micro. Ernesto Zacur. 2015-2017. "Quantitative characterization of cardiac tissue microstructure from Diffusion Tensor Imaging".
Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship in Biomedical Sciences. Blanca Rodríguez. 2013-2018. "Safety and efficacy of anti-arrhythmic drug therapy in acute myocardial ischaemia in human. An integrative, multiscale and mechanistic investigation".
Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship. Ana Mincholé. 2012-2014. "Multiscale investigation of drug-implantable cardioverter defibrillator interactions for antiarrhythmic therapy".
Oxford Centre for Applied Mathematics, Internal Postdoctoral Fellowship. Alfonso Bueno. 2012-2014.
EPSRC Life Sciences Interface Postdoctoral Fellowship. Dr Alexander Quinn, Co-sponsor with Peter Kohl. 2008-2012.
Medical Research Council Career Development Award. Blanca Rodríguez. 2007-2013. "Integrative computational and experimental study of arrhythmogenesis and defibrillation in acute myocardial ischaemia".
Wellcome Trust Career Development Research Fellowship in Biomedical Sciences. Blanca Rodríguez. 2007; declined- incompatible with MRC Award.
Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship. Blanca Rodríguez. 2007; declined for MRC Award.
British Heart Foundation Intermediate Research Fellowship. Blanca Rodríguez. 2007; declined- incompatible with MRC Award.

Personal Awards

The Rosanna Degani Young Investigator Finalist Award, Francesca Margara. Computing in Cardiology, 2021.
The Rosanna Degani Young Investigator Semi-Finalist Awards, Julia Camps and James Coleman. Computing in Cardiology, 2021.
Best Remote Poster Presentation Award, Zhinuo Jenny Wang. Computing in Cardiology, September 2020.
Finalist for the Roanna Degani Young Investigator Award, Hannah Smith. Computing in Cardiology, September 2020.
Semi-finalist for the Roanna Degani Young Investigator Award, Francesca Margara. Computing in Cardiology, September 2020.
Student travel award, Francesca Margara and Cristian Trovato. Safety Pharmacology Society. 2019
VPHi Thesis Award, Francesc Levrero Florencio. One of two Winners of the Best VPHi Thesis award.
VPHi Student Award, Hector Martinez-Navarro. Finalist award at the VPH Conference, Zaragoza, September 2018.
The Rosanna Degani Young Investigator Award (semi-finalist), Julià Camps. 2018.

Elisa Passini, 2017 International 3Rs Prize winner, The National Centre for the replacement Refinement & Reduction of Animals in Research, UK. 2018
Blanca Rodriguez, MPLS Impact Award, commercial (economic) impact, University of Oxford, 2018.
Adam McCarthy, Microsoft Azure Research Award, Microsoft, 2017-2018.
Francesc Levrero-Florencio, Silver Award, HPC Challenge, International High Performance Computing Summer School, 2017.
Anna Muszkiewicz, Travel Grant, the scientific committee of European Working Group on Cardiac Cellular Electrophysiology (EWGCCE), Vienna, Austria, 2017.
Anna Muszkiewicz, Research Spotlight Speaker Prize, the 12th London Hopper Colloquium, 2017.
Linford Briant, Poster Prize, European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) Islet Study Group and Beta Cell Workshop, 2017.
Anna Muszkiewicz, EPSRC PhD Prize, University of Oxford, 2016.
Aurore Lyon, the Young Investigator award, the 2015 Computing in Cardiology (CinC) Conference in Nice, Frace,2015.
Elisa Passini, Travel Grant, the scientific committee of European Working Group on Cardiac Cellular Electrophysiology (EWGCCE), Milan, Italy, 2015.
Elisa Passini, Best Poster award the 39th Annual Meeting of EWGCCE, Milan, Italy, 2015.
Ana Minchole, Returning Carers’ Fund, The University of Oxford. 2015.
Oliver Britton, NC3Rs 2014 3Rs Prize winner, The National Centre for the replacement Refinement & Reduction of Animals in Research, UK. 2014.
Ana Minchole, Best Poster Award, Computing in Cardiology Conference, Boston, USA, 2014.
Anna Muszkiewicz, Honorary Mention, Young Investigator Award Competition, Computing in Cardiology Conference, Boston, USA, 2014.
Sara Dutta, Safety Pharmacology Junior Travel Award, Safety Pharmacology Society Meeting, Washington, USA, 2014.
Oliver Britton, EPSRC PhD Prize (1 of 9 in Oxford MPLS Division), University of Oxford, 2014.
Sara Dutta, Best Talk Award, Department of Computer Science Student Conference, University of Oxford, 2014.
Oliver Britton, Finalist, Transforming Society category, UK ICT Pioneers Awards, United Kingdom, June 2014.
Blanca Rodriguez. Medical Research Council Centenary Award. 2013.
Xin Zhou, Microsoft Best Project Award, Systems Biology Doctoral Training Centre, University of Oxford, 2012.
Nejib Zemzemi, Best Poster Award, Computing in Cardiology, Polland, 2012.
Ciara Dangerfield, EPSRC PhD Prize (1 of 9 in Oxford MPLS Division), University of Oxford, 2012-2013. Investigation of mechanisms of drug cardiotoxicity using a population of stochastic action potential models.
Sara Dutta, Best Poster Award, Cardiovascular Network Symposium, Imperial College, United Kingdom, 2011.
Oliver Britton, Best Project Award, Systems Biology Doctoral Training Centre, University of Oxford, 2011.
Mikael Wallman, 2nd Prize, Student Competition, Department of Computer Science, Oxford, 2011.
Miguel Bernabeu, Best Paper Presentation, Computers in Cardiology, Bologna, Italy, 2008.
Simon Li, Best Poster Award, Life Sciences Interface Doctoral Training Center, University of Oxford, 2008.
Rafel Bordas, Best Project Award, Life Sciences Interface Doctoral Training Center, University of Oxford, 2008.
Martin J. Bishop, First Prize, Student Competition, Gordon Conference on Cardiac Arrhythmia Mechanisms, Ventura, California, USA, March 2007.
Martin J. Bishop, First Prize, Student Paper Award Competition, Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, New York, USA, September 2006.
Blanca Rodriguez, Merit Award, Oxford University Computing Laboratory, 2005-2006 and 2008-2009.
Royal Society International Incoming Short Visit Award. Blanca Rodríguez. 2007.
Blanca Rodriguez, First Prize, Young Investigators Award Competition, Heart Rhythm Society Scientific Sessions, San Francisco, USA, May 2004. (7586 registrants and total of nearly 11700 attendees).

Advisory Roles and Memberships

Oliver Britton, Member of The University of Oxford's 3Rs sub-committee (2016- ).
Blanca Rodriguez, Principal investigator within the BHF CRE (2013- ).
Blanca Rodriguez, Member of the Wellcome Trust Basic Science interview committee (2015- ).
Blanca Rodriguez, Board of the National Centre for Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animal in Research (2016- ).
Blanca Rodriguez, Nucleus Member of the European Society of Cardiology Working Group on e-cardiology (2015- ).
Blanca Rodriguez, Member of the National Centre for the 3Rs for Animal Research Expert Working Group on Cardiotoxity (2015- ).
Blanca Rodriguez, Scientific Advisory Board, Clyde Biosciences (2015- ).
Blanca Rodriguez, Scientific Advisory Board, Afib European Training Network (2016- ).
Blanca Rodriguez, Advisor of the In silico cardiac modelling working group, USA Food and Drug Administration (FDA) (2013- ).

Computational Cardiovascular Science

British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence

Computational Cardiovascular Science Team's Awards

Awarded & Funded Projects

Consortia grants

Personal Awards

Adam McCarthy, Microsoft Azure Research Award, Microsoft, 2017-2018.

Anna Muszkiewicz, Travel Grant, the scientific committee of European Working Group on Cardiac Cellular Electrophysiology (EWGCCE), Vienna, Austria, 2017.

Advisory Roles and Memberships