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Run by and for Postdocs, The Postdoctoral Society aims to promote interactions between postdocs to create a friendly network of skills and expertise and to welcome new postdocs to the Department.

All postdocs will be added automatically to a mailing list when they start to be kept up to date with events etc.

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A medical professional wearing a mask and safety gloves prepares COVID-19 Vaccine

Just over half of British Indians would take COVID vaccine

University of Oxford researchers from the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (DPAG) and the Department of Psychiatry, in collaboration with The 1928 Institute, have published a major new study on the impact of COVID-19 on the UK’s largest BME population.

Frontal view of a developing mouse heart used in the study

Earliest origins of the forming heart identified

The earliest known progenitor of the outermost layer of the heart has been characterised for the first time and linked to the development of other critical cell types in the developing heart in a new paper from the Srinivas group led by BHF Immediate Fellow Dr Richard Tyser.

Scarred lungs compared with healthy lungs show much larger areas of darkness, representing parts of the lungs that are having difficulty transporting oxygen into the blood stream.

Covid-19 lung damage identified in study

In a new study into the longer-term damage amongst patients recovering from COVID-19, DPAG Research Fellow Dr James Grist of the Tyler Lab has been running a novel scanning technique that shows a dramatic decrease in the ability of the lungs to diffuse gas in to the blood stream after COVID infection. This work may shed light on the problem of breathlessness after COVID infection and help guide us in understanding therapeutic selection and efficacy.

New MRI technique could detect early signs of heart failure in cancer patients following chemotherapy

New research led by Oxford BHF CRE Intermediate Transition Fellow Dr Kerstin Timm shows that a recently developed imaging technique pioneered by the Tyler Group can detect early metabolic changes in the heart caused by a commonly used chemotherapy drug, which is known to increase risk of heart failure in cancer survivors.

Researchers reveal surprising simplicity behind our ability to hear

A computational modelling study from the King Group demonstrates that the way sounds are transformed from the ear to the brain’s auditory cortex may be simpler than expected. These findings not only highlight the value of computational modelling for determining the principles underlying neural processing, but could also be useful for improving treatments for patients with hearing loss.

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