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Declan O’Regan
@drdeclanoregan.bsky.social
BHF Chair of Cardiovascular AI & Consultant Radiologist. Computational Cardiac Imaging group, MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences. 🚁
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Now open: Chain Florey Predoctoral Fellowship at the MRC LMS!
12 months of full-time, fully supported research training for doctors in core/specialty training aiming for a PhD.
Apply here: lms.mrc.ac.uk/work/vacanci...
November 6, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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🚨Chain Florey Transition-to-Independence Fellowship in Cardiac Imaging is now open! Up to 3 years funding for clinician scientists near CCT.

Join @drdeclanoregan.bsky.social team on a BHF-funded project using cardiac MRI, machine learning & genomics to study health & disease. Apply or tag someone!
Chain Florey Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Cardiac Imaging (pre- or post-CCT) - MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences
Computational Cardiac Imaging Group - Professor O'Regan
lms.mrc.ac.uk
October 24, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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New work from @drdeclanoregan.bsky.social and his lab has uncovered previously unknown links between our genes and heart shape

This was achieved by comparing the genetics and heart structures of over 40,000 people!

To read more follow the link!
First 3D genetic mapping of the heart uncovers genes implicated in sudden death
New research has identified previously unknown links between genes and heart shape. By analysing genetic data from over 40,000 UK Biobank participants, researchers at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sci...
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October 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Body fat distribution predicts the pace of cardiovascular system aging, with sex-specific patterns, and protective effect of estrogen
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Sex-specific body fat distribution predicts cardiovascular ageing
AbstractBackground and Aims. Cardiovascular ageing is a progressive loss of physiological reserve, modified by environmental and genetic risk factors, that
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August 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM
"Hidden" visceral fat around organs accelerates heart aging - but fat on the hips and thighs could be protective in women. Read our paper out now in the European Heart Journal. #whyCMR doi.org/10.1093/eurh...
August 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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🚀 Exciting Research Assistant opportunity!

Join Dr Melanie Chan’s team at the LMS as a Research Assistant to uncover the genetics of kidney disease using cutting-edge genomics and bioinformatics!

Apply here 👇
Research Assistant - MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences
Research Assistant to support Dr Melanie Chan
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August 21, 2025 at 9:11 AM
August 10, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Congratulations to Dr Soodeh Kalaie!

Her image "Genetic Rhythms - the fingerprint of genes on the beating heart", based on her research with @drdeclanoregan.bsky.social, has been shortlisted as one of the @thebhf.bsky.social #ReflectionsOfResearch!

To vote follow the link and like the post!
5) ‘Genetic rhythms’ – the fingerprint of genes on the beating heart by Soodeh Kalaie, Imperial College London

6) Glowmance in a Chip: When Neurons Meet Vessels by Elisa Duregotti, Imperial College London
June 19, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Fantastic welcome from Dr Marc Pfeffer and colleagues @harvard.edu / Brigham - giving me the opportunity to present our team’s work at the Grand Round.
May 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Swift trip to 🇪🇸💃
April 28, 2025 at 6:25 AM
🌺Azaleas and rhododendrons just starting to peep out in the Isabella Plantation #RichmondPark
April 21, 2025 at 12:05 PM
❤️Three year Chain Florey Fellowship in Cardiac Imaging @mrc-lms.bsky.social and @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social. Pre/Post CCT in any relevant specialty. Supporting a "Transition to Independence" in your research career. Closes 11th May. #whyCMR www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMR184/c...
April 11, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Last meeting for me on the @ukri.org Fellowships committee. Great experience and hugely encouraging to see so many fantastic early career clinician scientists.
March 20, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Very welcome spot of “winter” sun! 🇦🇪
March 10, 2025 at 10:22 AM
❤️Three year fully-funded post-CCT fellowship in Cardiac imaging / AI at @mrc-lms.bsky.social and @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social. The Chain Florey Transition to Independence scheme offers a unique opportunity for early career clinicians. Closes 2nd March! www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
February 11, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Time to go. God Bless America. #SCMR2025 🇺🇸
February 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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We’re hiring for Programme Leader Track positions! This is an outstanding opportunity to advance your career in a discovery science institute of world-leading excellence.

Application deadline is 13 January 2025.

lms.mrc.ac.uk/work/vacanci...
Programme Leader Track - MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences
Programme Leader Track appointments are an open-ended contract, which comprises a six-year advanced career development scheme after which you will be considered for promotion to Programme Leader.
lms.mrc.ac.uk
January 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Standoff in the kitchen.
January 6, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Such a high tide at Hammersmith - and Venus peaking out behind the crescent moon. 🌙
January 5, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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We are hiring! Programme Leader Track positions @mrc-lms.bsky.social up for grabs by up-and-coming researchers with a great start to their career who now aim to establish their own group in a translational discovery science institute of world leading excellence. lms.mrc.ac.uk/work/vacanci...
December 17, 2024 at 7:06 PM
Huge thanks to our brilliant team @mrc-lms.bsky.social and looking forward to 2025!
December 19, 2024 at 7:26 AM
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Computational with a PhD in some quantiative science, and want to make the world a better place with AI in healthcare? Want to work with some of the most innovative AI groups in the life sciences? Want to work for Europe, across Cambridge and Heidelberg, living in the UK? Two more days to apply:
NEW: Postdoctoral Fellow with @ewanbirney

The project is based in the Birney Research group at @emblebi and working closely with Open Targets and @MoritzGerstung's group at DKFZ
December 6, 2024 at 11:19 AM
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The deadline to apply for our PhD studentships is fast approaching!

If you’d like to study a PhD at the LMS make sure to get your applications in by the 6th of December!

If our world class science isn't convincing enough, then hear what our students have to say

lms.mrc.ac.uk/work-and-stu...
December 4, 2024 at 12:50 PM
I got the famous @thebhf.bsky.social mug - it was worth all those grant panel meetings!
December 3, 2024 at 11:05 AM
Hear about our research @mrc-lms.bsky.social on digital heart health from BBC World Service (near the start) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
BBC World Service - The Documentary Podcast, Me and my digital twin
Ghislaine Boddington explores how to create an AI version of herself
www.bbc.co.uk
December 1, 2024 at 5:44 PM