Dr. Riaz Akhtar, Reader in Biomedical Engineering, reflects on positive impact of Wellcome ISSF Research Support Fund grant in recognition of challenges presented by the pandemic. I am a Reader in Biomedical Engineering. My research focusses on cardiovascular biomechanics. I am fortunate to be able to work with leading experts through the Liverpool Centre of […]
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 research on the use of nanomechanics and biochemistry to study thoracic aortic aneurysms was covered in an article published by the University of Liverpool: https://news.liverpool.ac.uk/2019/02/14/feature-meet-the-liverpool-scientists-beating-heartbreak-this-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 […]