📅 One for the calendar!

VPD-HLRI Monthly Seminar

🗓 29 April 2026

🕓 4:00 PM

📍 Room 88/89, VPD-HLRI

Another successful VPD-HLRI Monthly Seminar.
Thanks to @mark-toshner.bsky.social for hosting as well as our speakers Will Watson & Toni Vidal-Puig

Join us for the next monthly seminar at the VPD-HLRI

Need a coffee, directions or even an answer to a medieval history question?

Ella from our reception team is here to help.

Often the first smiling face you’ll see at the VPD-HLRI, part of our team that keep things running smoothly for visitors, staff and students.

Colleagues came together today for a lunchtime celebration marking International Women’s Day.

A chance to recognise the incredible women across our institute whose work drives research, collaboration and discovery every day.

#InternationalWomensDay #WomenInScience

Women advancing medicine at Cambridge See the story

On #InternationalWomensDay, we’re celebrating some of the women across @medcambridge.bsky.social who are advancing research, improving patient care, and shaping the future of healthcare.

Read along to find out more: buff.ly/5RArf1F

@vpd-hlri.bsky.social #CITIID #PACE
@cuh.nhs.uk
@cam.ac.uk

☀️ 10 seconds of sun ☀️

The UK finally remembered how to do sunshine

A quick walk around the building at lunch today: blue skies, the pond full of ducks, and everyone suddenly eating outside again.
A great spot for lunch!

If this is a preview of summer, we’ll take it.

Tetris gameplay treatment helps reduce traumatic flashbacks for frontline healthcare workers A simple, digital intervention that includes mentally playing Tetris can dramatically reduce intrusive memories of trauma in a month, even to the point of

A simple, digital intervention involving mentally playing Tetris can help reduce PTSD for frontline healthcare workers, say scientists.

@charlottesummers.bsky.social from @vpd-hlri.bsky.social describes the treatment as "an exciting step forward”.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/4rjuNs2

#research 🧪

🧬 International Women & Girls in Science Day 🧪

At VPD-HLRI, we’re proud to support women at every stage of their careers.

Meet Jennifer Martin — PhD student, new mum, and haematology data scientist — inspiring the next generation of female scientists.

#WomenAndGirlsInScience #WomenInSTEM

🎥 Professor @andresfloto.bsky.social
on new funding from: @wellcometrust.bsky.social @gatesfoundation.bsky.social @novonordisk.bsky.social and how VPD-HLRI research is helping reshape antibiotic discovery in the fight against antimicrobial resistance.

Read more:
🔗 bit.ly/4rJy6c2

📣 The next VPD-HLRI Monthly Seminar

📅 23 Feb
🕓 4pm
📍 Room 88/89, VPD-HLRI

#HLRI #CambridgeScience

A great turnout yesterday for our monthly seminar, hosted by @charlottesummers.bsky.social.

We looked back on what we’ve achieved over the past few years and shared our goals for the future.

Thank you to everyone who came along and contributed to such a thoughtful discussion.

Our new meta-analysis & Mendelian randomization study shows that substance misuse, particularly cocaine, amphetamines, and cannabis, are associated with increased risk of stroke. Read more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @cambridgecardio.bsky.social @camneuro.bsky.social @vpd-hlri.bsky.social

📢 HLRI Monthly Seminar

Prof @charlottesummers.bsky.social will be speaking as part of this month’s seminar series (no external speaker).

🗓 Mon 26 Jan
🕓 4pm
📍 Room 88, HLRI
🧠 VPD-HLRI: A forward look

We hope to see you all there.

#HLRI #AcademicSeminar #ResearchLeadership

Defining Permissive Chemical Space in Klebsiella pneumoniae Andres Floto with Vitor Mendes, David Spring, Aaron Weimann, Sebastian Bruchmann, and José Miguel Hernández Lobato of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom will experimentally define the f...

Many congratulations to @andresfloto.bsky.social and team for their success in the @gatesfoundation.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social Novo Nordisk Foundation Grand Challenge for Innovations in Gram negative antibiotic discovery:
gcgh.grandchallenges.org/grant/defini...

Great to host Prof Alex Rothman today for our Cardiovascular Seminar hosted at the VPD-HLRI 📸

🧠 Insights into SMURF1 inhibition and pulmonary arterial hypertension
👏 Thanks to Mark Toshner for the introduction.
@cambridgecardio.bsky.social
#Cardiology #PulmonaryHypertension #HLRI

UK-Australia study awarded £7.4 million to investigate how menopause shapes heart health | Department of Medicine A new international study co-led by the University of Cambridge has received US $10 million (approximately £7.4 million) to explore how menopause affects women’s heart health.

New study co-led by Ziad Mallat @cam.ac.uk & Martha Hickey @unimelb.bsky.social awarded $10m (~£7.4m) to explore how menopause shapes heart health and launch the largest trial of its kind to detect early artery changes for prevention.

buff.ly/WcDljPY

@vpd-hlri.bsky.social
@thebhf.bsky.social

Fresh off her @naturemedicine.bsky.social paper.
@rouchelles.bsky.social talks balancing work and life, navigating academic cardiology as a woman, and why even top achievers face imposter syndrome.

Read more ⬇️
rdcu.be/eX8W3

@nihr.bsky.social
@royalpapworth.bsky.social

PAPER ALERT: The IVORY trial published in Nature Medicine last week: rdcu.be/eX8W3

@ziadmallat.bsky.social @vpd-hlri.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social @cuh.nhs.uk @royalpapworth.bsky.social @inserm.fr @parcc-inserm.bsky.social @medcambridge.bsky.social @rouchelles.bsky.social @jc403.bsky.social

Targeting the immune system could prevent future heart attacks, clinical trial suggests Cambridge researchers have discovered that an existing therapy which boosts protective immune cells in people who recently had heart attacks reduces blood

IVORY trial results published! 🫀

Early results show reduced artery inflammation and a trend towards fewer future heart events.

www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/targeting-the-immune-system-could-prevent-future-heart-attacks-clinical-trial-suggests

❄️ Frosty views at VPD-HLRI this morning.
Stay warm!

Happy New Year!

We are looking for a postdoc with computational expertise to join our group. Deadline for application is 13th January.

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

#newjob #postdoc #vascularbiology #atherosclerosis #cellplasticitycontrol #functionalgenomics #cellheterogeneity

Are you an emerging clinical academic leader in respiratory medicine?
Come and join @vpd-hlri.bsky.social and @royalpapworth.bsky.social and build your career!
Get in touch if you’d like to discuss.

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

🚨Wanted…emerging clinical academic leader in cardiology to join @vpd-hlri.bsky.social and @royalpapworth.bsky.social.
Get in touch if you’d like to discuss the role. We’d love to hear from you!

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

Talks and tours at the VPD–HLRI today.

Meet the team, hear the science, and see our state-of-the-art facilities up close.

🎄Now that it’s officially December, it’s time to show off our Christmas tree and the Cambridge Biomedical Campus Christmas tree! 🎄

Don't forget to join us today at 4pm for our Monthly seminar:

Risk of rare heart complications in children higher after COVID-19 infection than after vaccination Children and young people faced long-lasting and higher risks of rare heart and inflammatory complications after COVID-19 infection, compared to before or

Children and young people faced higher and longer-lasting risks of rare heart complications after #COVID19 infection than after vaccination, say @vpd-hlri.bsky.social researchers.

Find out more about this study 👇
bit.ly/43BmUof 🧪

Out now!

A large scale study by CEU researchers has shown children & young people faced long-lasting & higher risks of rare heart & inflammatory complications after COVID-19 infection, compared to before or without an infection

👉 tinyurl.com/mpfv7vu3

@dphpc.bsky.social
@vpd-hlri.bsky.social

Today we say goodbye to one of our apprentices Kyle, who has been with us for the past 18 months.

“I’ve really enjoyed my time at the VPD-HLRI and after completing my apprenticeship I’ve learned the skills to step into a new role.”

Best of luck to him on his new adventure!