Elisa Passini was invited to give a talk at the "3Rs Symposium 2015".

Posted 02/06/2015

Elisa Passini was invited on the 27th of May to give a talk at the "3Rs Symposium 2015", University of Edinburgh.

The NC3Rs is a UK-based scientific organisation dedicated to replacing, refining and reducing the use of animals in research. Elisa’s talk "Inter-subject variability in cardiac disease and drug action: insights from Virtual Assay", was focused on how computational modelling may help to reduce, refine and eventually replace animal experiments.

Elisa Passini has been awarded a Travel Grant to present her work at the 39th Annual Meeting of EWGCCE that will take place in Milan, on the 21th- 22th of June.

Posted 15/05/2015

Dr. Elisa Passini has been awarded a Travel Grant from the scientific committee of European Working Group on Cardiac Cellular Electrophysiology (EWGCCE) to present her work entitled “Late sodium and sodium-calcium exchanger current block as a combined anti-arrhythmic approach in human hypertrophic cardiomyopathy”. The 39th Annual Meeting of EWGCCE will take place in Milan, Italy, on 21-22 June in conjunction with the EHRA EUROPACE -CARDIOSTIM 2015 congress.

Eric Sobie, Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics came to Oxford and gave us a talk on “Quantitative Cardiovascular Systems Pharmacology”.

Posted 19/05/2015

Eric Sobie, Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics, at the Department of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, visited our group on Tuesday 5th of May and gave  a talk on “Quantitative Cardiovascular Systems Pharmacology: exploiting mathematical models to generate novel insight”.

The talk and ensuing discussions will help establish future collaboration between our respective research groups.

Elisa Passini and Blanca Rodriguez attended The Gordon Research Conference on "Cardiac Arrhythmia Mechanisms" that took place in Lucca, Italy from 22 to 27 March

Posted 31/03/2015

Elisa Passini presented a poster on the simultaneous block of Late Sodium current and Sodium-Calcium exchanger as a potential therapy in human hypertrophic cardiomyopathy at the Gordon Research Conference on "Cardiac Arrhythmia Mechanisms" that took place in Lucca, Italy from 23 to 26 March.

Blanca and Elisa also took the opportunity to discuss present and future collaborations with various colleagues attending the conference.

Congratulations to Oliver Britton! He has been awarded the 2014 3Rs prize by the NC3Rs.

Posted 09/03/2015

It is the first time that the 3Rs prize has been awarded to a computer science paper since its launch in 2005, and the first time that the highest accolade has gone to a PhD student: Oliver Britton from the Department of Computer Science. 

The work has been recognised for its potential to reduce the number of animals used in research, particularly in the safety assessment of new drugs. 

Read the news.

Professor Jari Hyttinen came to Oxford and gave us a talk about “Engineering stem cell based human spare parts”.

Posted 16/03/2015

Visit our new section "Case Studies" of the Virtual Assay software!

Posted 07/03/2015

We have added new Case Studies to show what you can simulate with the Virtual Assay software, visit the section!

The book “Human-based Systems for Translational Research” where Blanca Rodriguez is a co-author has now been released!

Posted 19/01/2015

This book will provide a detailed history and discussion of the use of human tissues as an alternative to animal-based testing for assessing the efficacy and safety of new medicines. Beginning by providing the history and background of animal-based testing, this text then describes in detail the issues relating to access to human cells and tissue and the rules and regulations governing their use. The book contains chapters on culture, assays, microfluidics and body-on-a-chip technology, as well as chapters on emerging technologies and techniques such as engineered organs. Each chapter comprehensively covers a technique, from its utilisation and methodology to the opportunities and limitations of the method. Written and edited by Worldwide experts within the field, this book will be an essential text for biochemists and researchers working in translational medicine in both industry and academia.

Following a generous donation by Google, the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford is delighted to invite applications for up to 15 fully-funded DPhil .

Posted 21/11/2014

Following a generous donation by Google, the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford is delighted to invite applications for up to 15 fully-funded DPhil (Oxford's PhD) studentships tenable from 1st October 2015.    The University of Oxford is consistently ranked amongst the very best Computer Science departments in the world, for both teaching and research. We are committed to attracting the world's most talented students ...

Professor Kevin Burrage and Dr Alfonso Bueno-Orovio, Dagstuhl Seminar

Posted 03/12/2014

Professor Kevin Burrage and Dr Alfonso Bueno-Orovio just returned from the Dagstuhl seminar on Multiscale Spatial Computational Systems Biology that ran from 23 to 28 November, 2014. T

he Schloss Dagstuhl Leibniz Centre for Informatics is the world's premier venue for informatics, where world-class scientists, promising young researchers, and practitioners come together to exchange their knowledge and to discuss their research findings in informatics and its applications. The centre is based in a castle built in the 1760s and situated in a beautiful wooded area of Saarland in western Germany There were about 60 participants from around the world and over the five days they were separated into eight groups to address fundamental problems in the multiscale modelling of complex biological and physiological dynamics. 

They made new contacts, worked hard, started new collaborations and had a great time.