Postdoctoral projects
The Oxbridge Centre of Regenerative Medicine (II) supported 8 postdoctoral positions associated with the award. The positions were for three years with an end date no later than 30th September 2021.
Details of the projects and lead PIs are below, together with the researchers appointed to the project.
Principle investigator |
Post-doc |
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| Oxford | ||||
| Robin Choudhury |  |
Strategies for therapeutic intervention to modify fibrosis in experimental myocardial infarction | Daniela Pezzolla |  |
| Shoumo Bhattacharya |  |
Evasin therapeutics for modulating inflammation during cardiovascular repair and regeneration | ||
| Nicola Smart |  |
Targeting the endocardium to augment neovascularisation of the ischaemic heart | Vignesh Murugesan |  |
| Angela Russell |  |
Pharmacological augmentation of epicardial-derived cardiovascular regeneration mechanisms | Tahnee Kennedy |  |
| Cambridge | ||||
| Sanjay Sinha |  |
Epicardial-myocardial crosstalk: embryonic pathways essential for myocardial regeneration | Vincent Knight-Schrijver |  |
| Helle Jorgensen |  |
Stimulation of resident arterial smooth muscle cell proliferation | Şebnem Öç |  |
| Bristol | ||||
| Rebecca Richardson |  |
Characterising the pro-fibrotic versus pro-regenerative roles of zebrafish osteopontin | Rebecca Ryan |  |
| Manchester | ||||
| Enrique Amaya |  |
Identifying the critical downstream targets of sustained ROS production during heart regeneration | Lauren Phipps |  |
| Cambridge/Imperial | ||||
| Sanjay Sinha | |
Next-generation multicellular prevascularised ‘cardiac patch’ for cardiac repair post myocardial injury in a rat model |
Maria Colzani |
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The Oxbridge Centre of Regenerative Medicine (I) awarded two 3-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (2014-2017). The fellowships were collaborative with joint supervision between Oxford and Cambridge. Please follow the link below to learn more about the researchers and their projects.
The Centre also recruited two senior Research Technicians to provide core support to Centre investigators.
Please follow the link below for more information on Research Technicians and the projects they have supported.