Biomedical Sciences
Inspired minds, inspired places
The Biomedical Sciences Directorate (BMS) has a vision to build world-class Discovery Science and Translational Medicine programmes in partnership with the University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire (UHCW); deliver interdisciplinary educational programmes; and transmit new knowledge to the wider world through an exciting public engagement interface.
Home to 40 Principal Investigators, including clinical and non-clinical academics, BMS has several joint appointments with other departments to drive interdisciplinary work.
Leading edge research centres and programmes
Our Principal Investigators lead key University-wide research centres, externally supported research programmes and innovative education initiatives:
Events and seminars
BMS Seminar: Self-organisation of the cytoplasm in early embryogenesis, Professor Jan Brugues, Dresden University
WMS/SLS Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Seminar: A structural atlas of baculovirus reveals the hallmarks of a new viral realm, Prof Fasseli Coulibaly, Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute
Biomedical Sciences News
Detailed Analysis of Electrogram Peak Frequency to guide Centricular Tachycardia Substrate Mapping
Professor Tarvinder Dhanjal, Professor of Cardiology, has had their latest manuscript published in EP Europace journal. The project was a multi-centre, international, mechanistic VT mapping study including UHCW, Brighton and Barcelona.
Abstract:
Differentiating near-field (NF) and far-field (FF) electrograms (EGMs) is crucial in identifying critical arrhythmogenic substrate during Ventricular Tachycardia (VT) ablation. A novel algorithm annotates NF fractionated signals enabling EGM Peak Frequency (PF) determination using wavelet transformation. This study evaluated the algorithms effectiveness in identifying critical components of the VT circuit during substrate mapping.
Read the paper here.
Insight into the emerging insect to human pathogen Photorhabdus revealing geographic differences in immune cell tropism
Meet our Principal Investigators
Find out more about our PIs and the important work they lead on.
Inspired minds, inspired places
The Biomedical Sciences Directorate (BMS) has a vision to build world-class Discovery Science and Translational Medicine programmes in partnership with the University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire (UHCW); deliver interdisciplinary educational programmes; and transmit new knowledge to the wider world through an exciting public engagement interface.
Home to 40 Principal Investigators, including clinical and non-clinical academics, BMS has several joint appointments with other departments to drive interdisciplinary work.
Leading edge research centres and programmes
Our Principal Investigators lead key University-wide research centres, externally supported research programmes and innovative education initiatives:
Leading edge research centres and programmes
Our Principal Investigators lead key University-wide research centres, externally supported research programmes and innovative education initiatives:
Events and seminars
WMS/SLS Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Seminar: A nuclear enterprise: a transcription and splicing super factory turbocharges surface antigen expression and antigenic variation in Trypanosomes, Dr Joana Faria, University of York
BMS Seminar: Self-organisation of the cytoplasm in early embryogenesis, Professor Jan Brugues, Dresden University
WMS/SLS Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Seminar: A structural atlas of baculovirus reveals the hallmarks of a new viral realm, Prof Fasseli Coulibaly, Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute
Biomedical Sciences News
Detailed Analysis of Electrogram Peak Frequency to guide Centricular Tachycardia Substrate Mapping
Professor Tarvinder Dhanjal, Professor of Cardiology, has had their latest manuscript published in EP Europace journal. The project was a multi-centre, international, mechanistic VT mapping study including UHCW, Brighton and Barcelona.
Abstract:
Differentiating near-field (NF) and far-field (FF) electrograms (EGMs) is crucial in identifying critical arrhythmogenic substrate during Ventricular Tachycardia (VT) ablation. A novel algorithm annotates NF fractionated signals enabling EGM Peak Frequency (PF) determination using wavelet transformation. This study evaluated the algorithms effectiveness in identifying critical components of the VT circuit during substrate mapping.
Read the paper here.
Insight into the emerging insect to human pathogen Photorhabdus revealing geographic differences in immune cell tropism
Meet our Principal Investigators
Find out more about our PIs and the important work they lead on.