Contact information

Email
kim.dora@pharm.ox.ac.uk

Telephone
+44 (0)1865 281114

Research groups

Colleges

Worcester College

Kim Dora

Professor of Microvascular Pharmacology

BHF Senior Basic Science Research Fellow

Key publications

Injected extracellular vesicles and other nanoparticles hitchhike on erythrocytes and platelets from circulation towards organ clearance

Pavlova S. et al, (2026), Extracellular Vesicle, 7

Plasma extracellular vesicle modulate immune cell transcriptional responses following acute myocardial infarction

Timms L. et al, (2026), Iscience, 29

Non-invasive measurement of neurotransmitter-specific glucose metabolism in the human brain using proton-observed proton-edited 13 C-MRS (POPE 13 C-MRS)

Cherix A. et al, (2026)

A functional overlap between actively transcribed genes and chromatin insulator elements.

Cornell LJ. et al, (2026), EMBO J

YdbL directly modulates YdbH-YnbE bridge formation to maintain Escherichia coli outer membrane homeostasis

De'Ath C. et al, (2026)

Dopamine release from Parkinson's patient-derived neurons is disrupted due to impaired synaptic vesicle loading

Cramb KML. et al, (2026)

Sleep and circadian health in the UK Biobank: Report on the 2023 sleep questionnaire enhancement.

Tse KYK. et al, (2026), Sleep

Senescence-related myocardial dysfunction: keeping a young heart.

Ajjan RA. et al, (2026), Eur Heart J

Reimagining Thomas Lewis's perspective: using artificial intelligence tools to predict cardiovascular risk from computed tomography.

Kotronias RA. et al, (2026), Heart

Associations of 6600 SomaScan proteins with demographic, lifestyle, environmental and health characteristics in Chinese adults

CHEN Z. et al, (2026), Scientific Reports

Young adulthood adiposity in relation to all-cause and cause-specific mortality: a prospective study of 0.5 million Chinese adults

CHEN Z. et al, (2026), Science Bulletin

Single intramuscular injection of self-amplifying RNA of Nppa to treat myocardial infarction.

Zhang K. et al, (2026), Science, 391

The metabolic balancing act between fatty acid and glucose substrate use for optimal myocardial function: Key role for membrane substrate transporters.

Glatz JFC. et al, (2026), Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol

Causes of excess non-lymphoma death in 58,000 patients with DLBCL diagnosed during 1997-2020 and followed for up to 25 years.

Challenger A. et al, (2026), Blood Adv

Diagnostic accuracy, treatment and prognosis of myocardial infarction: an 11-year follow-up of a community-based cohort of 0.5 million Chinese adults

CHEN Z. et al, (2026), BMJ Public Health

Harnessing Phase Separation for the Development of High-Performance Hydrogels.

Shao Y. et al, (2026), Adv Sci (Weinh)

Changes in absolute coronary blood flow and myocardial resistance after percutaneous coronary intervention.

Marin F. et al, (2026), EuroIntervention, 22, e301 - e312

An interpretable and explainable neural network to classify sports-related cardiac arrhythmias in professional football athletes

Vanegas Mueller E. et al, (2026)

Urinary carbonic anhydrase 1 excretion is a marker of hemolysis-triggering conditions suitable for point-of-care testing.

Hulikova A. et al, (2026), Blood Glob Hematol, 2

Relief with a catch: hemodilution in chronic mountain sickness sparks an erythropoietin surge.

Villafuerte FC. and Swietach P., (2026), Blood Red Cells Iron, 2

Long-term cardiovascular risk after severe exacerbation of COPD: a population-based cohort study.

Ding Y. et al, (2026), ERJ Open Res, 12

Urinary carbonic anhydrase 1 excretion is a marker of hemolysis-triggering conditions suitable for point-of-care testing.

Hulikova A. et al, (2026), Blood Glob Hematol, 2

Editorial for Quantitative Real-Time MRI for the Assessment of Gastric Motility.

Grist JT., (2026), Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI

Storage under hypoxia improves the ability of red cells to release oxygen in ex vivo–perfused human kidneys

Rabcuka J. et al, (2026), Blood Red Cells & Iron, 2, 100038 - 100038

Selective targeting of coronary lesions for plaque sealing to prevent adverse events.

Channon KM., (2026), Cardiovasc Res

Factors associated with adherence to allocated treatment in the ASCEND trial: a mail-based randomised trial of aspirin and of omega-3 fatty acid supplementation in people with diabetes.

Madurasinghe VW. et al, (2026), Trials, 27

Impact of sleep habits on life expectancy free of cardiovascular disease in the Chinese population: a prospective cohort study.

Sun Q. et al, (2026), J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci

Genetic substructure in Latin American individuals reveals novel associations, mechanistic insights, and variable polygenic risk score transferability for alcohol traits

Montalvo-Ortiz J. et al, (2026)

Astrocyte Enrichment of 3D Cortical Constructs Enhances Brain Repair.

Cruz EM. et al, (2026), Adv Sci (Weinh)

An injectable soft implant for long-acting, reversible, ultra-stable release of therapeutics

Kütahya C. et al, (2026)

Protocol of the RADIO-STAR trial: a phase 1 safety and dose finding study of hypofractionated radiotherapy to the stellate ganglia for the treatment of ventricular arrhythmia.

Bussmann BM. et al, (2026), BMJ Open, 16

A Rational Optimization Approach for the Development of a Multiplexed Lateral Flow Immunoassay: Detection of Nonepithelial Ovarian Cancer Markers in Human Serum.

Abdelwahed A. et al, (2026), Adv Sci (Weinh)

Technical Aspects and Clinical Relevance of Cuffless Devices for Blood Pressure Measurement. A Scientific Statement of the ESC Working Group on e-Cardiology, the ESC Council on Hypertension, and the European Association of Preventive Cardiology of the ESC.

Parati G. et al, (2026), Eur J Prev Cardiol

Rare coding variants in CHRNB3 associate with reduced daily cigarette smoking across ancestries.

Rajagopal VM. et al, (2026), Nat Commun, 17

MRD-driven initial therapy of acalabrutinib and lenalidomide plus rituximab or obinutuzumab for mantle cell lymphoma

Ruan J. et al, (2026), Blood Advances, 10, 1381 - 1394

Transcriptomic Analysis of Adult Mouse Cardiac Stromal Cells Using Single-Cell qRT-PCR

CARR C. et al, (2026), Cells

HFpEF and MASLD: converging mechanisms and clinical implications.

Capone F. et al, (2026), Nat Rev Cardiol

bsolute Quantification of Brain Deuterium Metabolic Imaging in Healthy Volunteers and Glioblastoma Patients at 7T.

Karkouri J. et al, (2026), Magn Reson Med

The use of animals in neuroscience research.

Couch Y., (2026), Brain

Circulating proteomic landscape of lung function.

Lee M. et al, (2026), Eur Respir J

Nanoparticle-Mediated Interface Engineering for Uniform, Reproducible Electron Transport Layers in Scalable Perovskite Solar Cells.

Henderson C. et al, (2026), ACS Appl Mater Interfaces

Reproducibility and associated regression dilution bias of accelerometer-derived physical activity and sleep in UK Biobank.

Zisou C. et al, (2026), Int J Epidemiol, 55

Cardiovascular disease in women: do we focus on single jigsaw pieces or look at the whole puzzle?

Krasner S. et al, (2026), Eur J Prev Cardiol, 33, 391 - 393

Genomics link obesity and type 2 diabetes to Alzheimer's disease to unveil novel biological insights.

Cunha C. et al, (2026), medRxiv

Light-driven repair: Photobiomodulation restores blood–brain barrier function following hypoxic injury

Domocos M. et al, (2026)

Biochemical profiling provides a low-cost and globally accessible method to detect falsified vaccines and insulin

Brook J. et al, (2026), Scientific Reports

Human-derived cardiac-neural microtissues reveal catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia is also a disease of the sympathetic neuron.

Li N. et al, (2026), J Physiol

Mechanotransduction as an emerging pathophysiological determinant of cardiovascular diseases.

Capoulade R. and Smart N., (2026), Cardiovasc Res, 121, 2809 - 2812

Metabolomic profile of genetic liability to type 2 diabetes among 125,000 Mexican adults: a Mendelian randomisation study

BRAGG F. et al, (2026), Diabetes Care

Kidney function and mortality in Mexico: prospective study of 130 000 adults

Aguilar Ramirez D. et al, (2026), Kidney Medicine

Utilizing Constrained Bicyclic Peptides for In Vitro Diagnostics.

Shamsabadi A. et al, (2026), ACS Nano

Spatial transcriptomics reveals a key role of fibroblast-like vascular smooth muscle cells in human atherosclerotic cell crosstalk and stability.

Goncalves I. et al, (2026), Eur Heart J

Differential Effects of Ischemia and Inflammation on Plasma-Derived Extracellular Vesicle Characteristics and Function in a Mouse Model.

Couch Y., (2026), Int J Mol Sci, 27

HDL Regulates TGFβ-Receptor Lipid Raft Partitioning, Restoring Contractile Features of Cholesterol-Loaded Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells.

Nagesh PT. et al, (2026), JACC Basic Transl Sci, 11

Modular DNA nanosensors enable state-aware multiplexed single-molecule mass photometry in complex media

Helmi S. et al, (2026)

The impact of tobacco cessation on buccal mucosa cancer risk: A multi-centre case–control study in India

LEWINGTON S. et al, (2026), International Journal of Cancer

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy caused by Filamin-C (FLNC) variants has restrictive and extracardiac features and a distinctive ECG.

de Villiers C. et al, (2026), Heart Rhythm

pilot study on protocol consistency and graph metric reproducibility in microstructure-weighted connectomes

Cavallo M. et al, (2026), Scientific Reports

Assessment of adverse effects attributed to statin therapy in product labels: a meta-analysis of double-blind randomised controlled trials

REITH C. et al, (2026), The Lancet

JAMA Cardiology-From Scientific Discovery to Population-Wide Delivery.

Casadei B., (2026), JAMA Cardiol

Recent publications

Asymmetric Dimethylarginine Enables Depolarizing Spikes and Vasospasm in Mesenteric and Coronary Resistance Arteries.

Ng YYH. et al, (2024), Hypertension, 81, 764 - 775

Crucial role for Sodium Hydrogen Exchangers in SGLT2 inhibitor-induced arterial relaxations.

Forrester EA. et al, (2023), bioRxiv

Gβγ subunit signalling underlies neuropeptide Y-stimulated vasoconstriction in rat mesenteric and coronary arteries.

Lin J. et al, (2023), Br J Pharmacol, 180, 3045 - 3058

Hyperpolarization and the endothelium

Garland CJ. and Dora KA., (2023), Current Opinion in Physiology, 34

Endothelin-1 in Health and Disease.

Banecki KMRM. and Dora KA., (2023), Int J Mol Sci, 24

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