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Latest News
Latest news and information from the LABB Group
We presented a poster (Phakakorn Panpho) and an oral presentation on our work at BiomedEng19 held at Imperial College which took place 5th-6th Sept 2019. Congratulations to Phakakorn Panpho who was awarded a BHF Travel Award.
The LABB group presented their work at the Liverpool Aortic Surgery Symposium VIII on 28th June 2019, which was attended by leading cardiothoracic surgeons from the UK and USA. Dr Jill Madine delivered a talk entitled 'Idiopathic degenerative thoracic aneurysms are associated with increased aortic medial amyloid'. Dr Riaz Akhtar gave a talk entitled 'Is bicuspid aortopathy associated with distinct patterns of matrix degradation?' Congratulations to Riaz who was awarded the Best abstract presentation for scientific research in Thoracic Aortic surgery.
Our paper 'Idiopathic degenerative thoracic aneurysms are associated with increased aortic medial amyloid' has now been published in the journal Amyloid.
AORTA: STRUCTURE TO RUPTURE 2019 2nd Annual meeting of the Liverpool Aortic Biomechanics and Biochemistry (LABB) Research Group Date: 25th September 2019 Venue: Foresight Centre, University of Liverpool
Our BHF-funded research on thoracic aortic aneurysms was covered by ITV Granada Reports:
https://www.itv.com/news/granada/2019-02-14/tackling-heartbreak-on-valentines-day
We are pleased that Zhuo Chang, who was supervised by Dr Riaz Akhtar on a project related to arterial stiffening has been awarded the prestigious Chinese Government Scholarship for Outstanding PhD Thesis for Self-Funded Students 2018. Zhuo’s work focussed on utilising the internal mammary artery as a novel target for arterial stiffening.
You can read about the prize in more detail: https://news.liverpool.ac.uk/2019/02/12/engineering-phd-student-receives-prestigious-award/
You can read about the prize in more detail: https://news.liverpool.ac.uk/2019/02/12/engineering-phd-student-receives-prestigious-award/
Dr Hannah Davies gave a presentation on how computational approaches can help to understand how aortic medial amyloid could be involved in aneurysm development on 18th January 2019, at 4th N8 Biophysical and Biochemical Symposium on Computational and Experimental Methods in Biology
at the University of Sheffield.
Dr Hannah Davies presented our BHF-funded research investigating amyloid in thoracic aortic aneurysms at the Northern Vascular Biology Forum University of Bradford. This meeting was held on 10th December 2019.
