Oliver Britton gave one of the six keynote talks at the workshop "Data science challenges in high-throughput biology and precision medicine", in Edinburgh, 25th-27th November 2015. The organiser was The Alan Turing Institute, which is the UK’s national institute for data science.
The purpose of the workshop was to discuss what the most important challenges in biomedical data science are at the moment, and how the Alan Turing Institute could help to solve them. The talk presented by Oliver on behalf of our group showed the breadth of different research questions we are addressing, and illustrated the wide range of data sources and types that we use in our research.
Dr Ernesto Zacur has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship for the next two years. He will be sponsored by Professor Vicente Grau at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering. Congratulations!
We have been awarded an Impact Acceleration Award titled "Phase 2 of Virtual Assay project: Evaluation study". The kick off of the project was the 1st of October 2015.
Alfonso Bueno-Orovio gave a talk on the 24th of October on "In silico drug testing for atrial fibrillation - always 5 years from now?" at the workshop Atrial Signals 2015. This workshop brought together the leading experts of the field where they had the best chance to provide a stage for open discussion.
The topics of the workshop included:
The workshop was organized by the collaboration of the Institute of Biomedical Engineering (IBT) and the Städtisches Klinikum Karlsruhe, two well-known institutions in the field of atrial modelling, signal processing and medical care. The Institute of Biomedical Engineering is part of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), a well-known university specialized on engineering.
Professor Blanca Rodriguez, Mr Paul Finnemore, Dr Paul Brooker, Professor Chris Denning and Professor Lucy Walker will each serve on the Board of the National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement & Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs) for three-year terms from January 2016.
This non-executive Board provides advice on the strategy, monitors delivery against the NC3Rs mission, and ensures that financial planning and risk management is robust.
Members of the Board must be respected individuals with a proven track record in relevant research, have a good understanding of the use of animals in research and testing, display a commitment to the development of all three 'Rs', and a proven ability to exercise judgment in areas of science policy.
Professor Stephen Holgate CBE said “This is an exciting time for the NC3Rs and I am delighted to be able to welcome five outstanding individuals onto our Board, who bring with them a broad range of experience and expertise which will help boost our work.”
Thanks Kevin!
The Computational Cardiovascular Science group has hosted Professor Yoram Rudy, Visiting Professor of Computational Medicine in Oxford, and Professor from Washington University in St. Louis. He stayed and worked with us during this past month of September, sharing latest research findings, and discussing current and future common goals and collaborative projects. He also delivered a very instructive invited lecture on "Theoretical concepts in cardiac conduction and imaging abnormal electrophysiological substrate", and his Astor Lecture on “Noninvasive imaging of cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias in the intact human heart”.
You can find more info on his research here:
Xin Zhou gave a talk at Innovation in Cardiology 2015 on "Computational cardiac electrophysiology: Potentials and pitfalls". The congress was held in Fermo, Italy, 15th-17th of October.
Aurore Lyon has been awarded the Young Investigator Award at the 2015 Computing in Cardiology (CinC) Conference in Nice, France (Sept 6-9, 2015).
CinC provides a forum for scientists and professionals from the fields of medicine, physics, engineering and computer science to discuss their current research in topics pertaining to computing in clinical cardiology and cardiovascular physiology.
Aurore's work is part of her DPhil in Computational Medicine at the interface of Computer Science and Medicine, supervised by Dr Ana Minchole and Professors Nando De Freitas and Blanca Rodriguez, and in collaboration with cardiologists at the John Radcliffe Hospital, including Dr Rina Ariga and Professors Hugh Watkins and Stefan Neubauer.
Her study "Extraction of Morphological QRS-based Biomarkers in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy for Risk Stratification using L1 Regularized Logistic Regression" focuses on the analysis of the electrocardiogram to identify potentially lethal abnormalities in cardiac function in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy using signal processing and machine learning techniques.
Aurore holds a DPhil scholarship from the British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence at Oxford.
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