Studying the genetics of heart development and cardiovascular disease at the University of Manchester led by Professor Bernard Keavney 🦋 https://xitter.cf/t.co/NEB4VdJQ1l

University of Manchester, UK
Joined October 2017
Our new research article is out in @ejhg_journal! rdcu.be/d1rI4. Inside we explore the congenital heart disease cohorts of the 100,000 genomes project. @ColinAJohnson2 @SunaynaBest @stephbaross @DrJennyLord @KeavneyLab @GavinRyan27 @JacquelineEaso2 @kathrynhentges
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Last night was a great way to close our Bicentennial Global Health Conference: Collaboration for our Third Century. We were joined at Old Trafford by President and Vice-Chancellor @Duncanivison who awarded an honorary professorship to Rong Hu from China Pharmaceutical University.
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This week, experts from across the globe are gathering at The University of Manchester to celebrate our global partnerships. Cross-collaborations on an international scale are vital to inform our research and develop plans for the future.
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🫀 @OfficialUoM heart research has received £4 million from @TheBHF which will be matched by the University. Prof Keavney, our Cardiovascular Medicine Co-Theme Lead will lead the £8m Centre of Excellence with Co-Theme Lead, Prof Tomaszewski. Read more 👇 manchesterbrc.nihr.ac.uk/new…
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Keavney Lab retweeted
I’m thrilled to share that yesterday I passed my PhD viva! Thank you to my examiners Joy Wang and Mauro Santibanez-Koref for making the viva an enjoyable experience! Also, thanks to my supervisors Bernard Keavney and Andy Sharrocks, and everyone who supported me throughout 🎉 🧬
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Then from 2-4pm Tuesday, postdoc Yingjuan Liu will be at poster BS35 presenting GET: a generic deep learning-based edge detection and optical tracking toolbox for 3D cardiac organoids and genetic investigations #BCS2024
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If you're at the the #BCS2024 conference in Manchester this week come see our group's work🧵 First 10am on Tuesday: BSc student Saara Ahmad will be presenting her work on genetic variants in FTAAD patients in the 100,000 Genomes Project at poster 28
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NEWS: @TheBHF has awarded £4 million to support world-class cardiovascular research at the @OfficialUoM over the next 5years 🫀 The University has pledged to match the funding, taking the total investment in CVD research to £8m 🔬 🔗Read more: bit.ly/3VmsEyc
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Professor Bernard Keavney, BHF Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine @OfficialUoM, said: "This is a landmark moment for cardiovascular research in Greater Manchester. We’re thrilled that the progress we have made in our research [...] has been recognised with this award".
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UoM has just become an authorised institution with the All of Us research dataset, allowing UoM-affiliated researchers to sign up. It contains health & biomedical data including electronic health records & genomic data for around 500,000 USA individuals researchallofus.org
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Keavney Lab retweeted
Can you use multiomic data from the kidney to identify new therapeutic and diagnostic targets with a causal link to blood pressure? Our work out now in @NatureComms rdcu.be/dBJT4 tl;dr = Yes Interested in more? see below
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🌱Big congratulations to the Cardiovascular Science Groups on AV Hill 5th floor for achieving LEAF Certification! @DCVS_UoM @Keavneylab🏆Let's continue to lead the way in green practices and inspire others! @FBMH_UoM #Sustainability
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Replying to @DCVS_UoM
@DCVS_UoM Christmas quiz. my only contribution was to win the fastest eating of a mince pie. Managed to fully eat it in 28 seconds. Don’t recommend it….
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MRes ☑️ @OfficialUoM Special thanks to @KeavneyLab @PHRIresearch @MariePigeyre and all the participants of the PURE study 🇨🇦 🌎 and @TheBHF funding 🫀 And lastly, my partner @VirtueOfNothing for (trying to) keep me sane🫠 – at Philadelphia, PA
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I am looking for a post-doctoral research associate to join my group. It is an exciting project on promoter interactomes of cardiomyocytes derived from Noonan iPSCs. Please apply or forward to someone who may be interested. manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/va… jobs.ac.uk/job/DDO019/resear…
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Keavney Lab retweeted
It was great to welcome back @MunKitChoy to @DCVS_UoM for a talk today about his new work at @ManMetUni! It seems he couldn’t stay away for too long! @KeavneyLab 😅
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So it’s “Auf Wiedersehen” to the @EMBLEvents @EMBLHeidelberg Non-Coding Genome conference! It was great to present my poster on my PhD project and I received some really interesting feedback. I can’t wait for the next one already! 🧬 #EESNoncoding
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Here at @EMBL Heidelberg for the Non-coding genome conference! Come to my poster #110 at the Friday session with @KeavneyLab #EESNoncoding 🧬 ♥️
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