2 April 2020
\n \n \n \nDPAG Postdoctoral Research Scientist Dr Sophia Malandraki-Miller took part in a pilot careers mentoring session at Oxford High School. This exciting new engagement programme is a collaboration between Medical Sciences Division researchers and Oxford Biomedical Research Centre and aims to increase awareness of the variety of careers in biomedicine.
\n \n\n \n \n30 January 2020
\n \n \n \nAn immune cell is shown for the first time to be involved in creating the scar that repairs the heart after damage. The Riley Group study was funded by the British Heart Foundation and led by BHF CRE Intermediate Transition Research Fellow Dr Filipa Sim\u00f5es.
\n \n\n \n \n7 June 2019
\n \n \n \nA series of internal talks demonstrated an extensive breadth of research within the Development and Cell Biology Theme that tackles the questions fundamental to understanding evolution, growth, organ formation, the onset of disease and tissue regeneration. DPAG Researchers were also joined by two external speakers presenting their research into age-related angiocrine signals and stem cell strategies for lung development.
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\n \n \n \n\n \n \n8 May 2019
\n \n \n \nCongratulations are in order for Senior Postdoctoral Research Scientist Dr Joaquim Miguel Vieira, who was been awarded an Intermediate Fellowship from the British Heart Foundation. This award will fund research designed to better understand the basic mechanisms behind cardiovascular development and could pave the way for innovative treatments of heart disease.
\n \n\n \n \n8 March 2019
\n \n \n \nThe Knomo Award is a platform to celebrate extraordinary and entrepreneurial women. Dr Filipa Sim\u00f5es' nomination reflects her commitment to producing leading research, the hard work she puts into her flourishing career alongside raising a young family, while also finding time for outreach.
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\n \n \n \nThree of our research groups, and the Athena SWAN team, organised two delicious cake sales for Homeless Oxfordshire and Oxfordshire Mind respectively.
\n \n\n \n \n3 December 2018
\n \n \n \nCongratulations are in order to Filipa Sim\u00f5es, Nikita Ved and Tonia Thomas for their achievement at the BHF CRE Annual Symposium 2018.
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\n \n \n \n\n \n \n6 November 2017
\n \n \n \nA refurbished British Heart Foundation charity shop opened yesterday, with the help of one of our Professors, whose work is funded by the charity
\n \n\n \n \n16 October 2017
\n \n \n \n\n \n \n24 August 2017
\n \n \n \nThis September Professor Paul Riley will be joining the British Heart Foundation (BHF) fundraising campaign along with a group of BHF-funded Professors from research labs across the UK.
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\n \n \n \n\n \n \n8 December 2016
\n \n \n \nThe heart is one of the first organs to form during mammalian development and, in a human, was thought to form a beating structure from 3 weeks following conception. But now new imaging techniques have shown that the process occurs even earlier.
\n \n\n \n \n30 November 2016
\n \n \n \nA fourth subsidiary of OxStem Ltd, an Oxford spin-out co-founded by Professor Steve Davies and Professor Angela Russell has been launched.
\n \n\n \n \n14 October 2016
\n \n \n \nWhen does our heart first start to beat? Until now, researchers thought that the first time our heart muscle contracted to beat was at eight days after conception in mice, which equates to around day 21 of a human pregnancy.
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