Contact information
Research groups
Colleges
Websites
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                            BHF CRE
                        
                        
BHF Centre of Research Excellence (Oxford)
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                            Oxford Heart Centre
                        
                        
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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                            Levick's Introduction to Cardiovascular Physiology
                        
                        
CRC Press
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                            Basic Science for Core Medical Training
                        
                        
Oxford University Press
 
Neil Herring
DPhil, FRCP, FHRS
Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, BHF Senior Fellow and Consultant Cardiologist
Neil completed his PhD (DPhil) and medical degree at the University of Oxford, before undertaking medical training in Bath, Northampton, London and Oxford as a Clinical Lecturer. After becoming a Consultant Cardiologist (CCT 2013), he was made an Associate Professor (2015) having been awarded a Fellowship from the British Heart Foundation. His research group explores how the autonomic nervous system influences cardiac function and arrhythmias. Neil continues to work as a Consultant Cardiologist sub-specializing in cardiac pacing and rhythm management devices, and is also widely involved in medical school education as a Tutorial Fellow in Medical Science at Exeter College, Oxford. He is co-author of the textbooks "Basic Science for Core Medical Training" (highly commended at the BMA Book Awards 2016) and "Levick's Introduction to Cardiovascular Physiology". Neil is on the Editorial Boards of the journals JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology, Frontiers in Physiology, and Autonomic Neuroscience.
Read an interview with Neil discussing the groups recent work published in the European Heart Journal
BHF Fundraising activities in the Oxford Mail and the Oxford Paper.
BHF Half Marathon/10K at Blenheim Palace
Key publications
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                Neuropeptide Y is elevated in heart failure and is an independent predictor of outcomes.
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McDowell K. et al, (2023), Eur J Heart Fail
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                Neutrophils incite and macrophages avert electrical storm after myocardial infarction.
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Grune J. et al, (2022), Nat Cardiovasc Res, 1, 649 - 664
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                Coronary Sinus Neuropeptide Y Levels and Adverse Outcomes in Patients With Stable Chronic Heart Failure.
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Ajijola OA. et al, (2019), JAMA Cardiol
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                The autonomic nervous system and cardiac arrhythmias: current concepts and emerging therapies.
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Herring N. et al, (2019), Nat Rev Cardiol
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                Retained Metabolic Flexibility of the Failing Human Heart.
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Watson WD. et al, (2023), Circulation, 148, 109 - 123
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                Neuropeptide-Y Levels in ST-Segment-Elevation Myocardial Infarction: Relationship With Coronary Microvascular Function, Heart Failure, and Mortality.
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Gibbs T. et al, (2022), J Am Heart Assoc
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                Neuropeptide-Y causes coronary microvascular constriction and is associated with reduced ejection fraction following ST-elevation myocardial infarction.
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Herring N. et al, (2019), Eur Heart J
 
Recent publications
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                Redefining respiratory sinus arrhythmia as respiratory heart rate variability: an international Expert Recommendation for terminological clarity.
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Menuet C. et al, (2025), Nat Rev Cardiol
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                Clinical neurocardiology: defining the value of neuroscience-based cardiovascular therapeutics - 2024 update.
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Ajijola OA. et al, (2025), J Physiol
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                Metabolic flexibility and reverse remodelling of the failing human heart.
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Green PG. et al, (2025), Eur Heart J
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                Circulating neuropeptide Y dynamics and performance during exercise in heart failure patients with contemporary medical and device therapy.
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Ayagama T. et al, (2025), Exp Physiol
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                Cardiac conduction system regeneration prevents arrhythmias after myocardial infarction.
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Sayers JR. et al, (2025), Nat Cardiovasc Res
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                Neurocardiology: translational advancements and potential.
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Herring N. et al, (2024), J Physiol