Our top ten Research Priorities for our James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership are now live. In collaboration with the National Institute for Health and Care Research and with our intensive care community, we have now defined the most important questions for intensive care research.

Module 3 of the UK Covid Inquiry takes time to read but the lessons are clear: we avoided system collapse but only just & at great cost to our patients & the people who delivered the care. @charlottesummers.bsky.social, Tim Cook, Ganesh Suntharalingam & I wrote this www.bmj.com/content/393/... #BMJ

We’re pleased to announce the appointment of Professor @charlottesummers.bsky.social as our new Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. A member of our alumni, she joins us from the University of Cambridge where she leads the Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Heart & Lung Research Institute. 👉 tr.ee/wtJGHv

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 🧪

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

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🧬 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

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...

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...

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Please do have a listen to @rouchelles.bsky.social sharing her thoughts about her science, balancing a clinical academic career in cardiology with family life, & the importance of mentors and a supportive environment. @nihr.bsky.social @royalpapworth.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk

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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

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

I realise this is minor in grand scheme of things, but one of the things I miss about living in the US, even after being home for years, is being able to buy large cartons of buttermilk. Why do UK supermarkets think 300 mL is a useful quantity to sell?!

Brighter days are on the way! 22 December, 2025. @vpd-hlri.bsky.social

🚨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...

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...

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 🧪

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

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❤️ Today is #restarttheheartday When was the last time you refreshed your CPR?

Fantastic to play our part in this year’s Cambridge Alumni Festival - welcoming visitors for talks and tours of the VPD-HLRI. @charlottesummers.bsky.social @lukeflower.bsky.social

@drkevinfong.bsky.social, Tim Cook & I have contributed to the Discussion of ‘Some statistical aspects of the Covid-19 response' by Wood et al url: academic.oup.com/jrsssa/artic...

I have been reading some of the important reports published recently and decided to write a few reflections: www.linkedin.com/posts/prof-c...

Lots of important reports published recently, so these are some personal reflections on some of what has been written… | Charlotte Summers

Lots of important reports published recently, so these are some personal reflections on some of what has been written… In previous Guardian articles, I described health as being inextricable linked t...

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🎉 Congrats to Prof. Ziad Mallat! winner of the 2025 Louis & Artur Lucian Award for his groundbreaking work in cardiovascular immunology — a top international honour in circulatory disease research. @medcambridge.bsky.social Read more ⬇️ 🔗 bit.ly/40XaxkJ

Congratulations! 🎉 @vpd-hlri.bsky.social Today marks 3ys since the Research Institute first opened! A collaboration between @royalpapworth.bsky.social @cuh.nhs.uk @thebhf.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk & others, it seeks to 'improve cardiovascular and lung health for everyone' @charlottesummers.bsky.social

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Today, @vpd-hlri.bsky.social is three years old! @royalpapworth.bsky.social @cuh.nhs.uk @cuhpartners.bsky.social @thebhf.bsky.social @cambridgebrc.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk www.cam.ac.uk/stories/hear...

Today, @vpd-hlri.bsky.social is three years old! @royalpapworth.bsky.social @cuh.nhs.uk @cuhpartners.bsky.social @thebhf.bsky.social @cambridgebrc.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk www.cam.ac.uk/stories/hear...

At the heart of life-changing science

The Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Heart & Lung Research Institute is a thriving community of scientists and clinicians, the largest concentration of its kind in Europe, focused on tackling the world's bigge...

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NEWSFLASH, any reviewer for BMJOpenRespRes gets a 25% discount on the APC for manuscripts submitted to BMJOpenRespRes within 12 months. There maybe further positive moves in future #SmallSteps. #GettingThere 🙏🙏

Sad to miss this today due to being in Oxford, but will catch up via YouTube afterwards. Do join this fab seminar in person or online if you can!

VPD Heart & Lung Research Institute@vpd-hlri.bsky.social · last yr.

We are back! Join us at 4pm on Monday 30th for the VPD–HLRI Monthly Seminar Series at the VPD–HLRI (Room 88/89, Ground Floor) - No booking needed! Can't make it in person? Stream it live or watch it back via our new YouTube channel: youtube.com/@HLRI_Cambri... @medcambridge.bsky.social

Excited to be in Oxford for the International Pandemic Sciences Conference 2025. #PandemicSciences25

Funding cuts could result in one million deaths in the next year, warns Tim Harford. Read his column on the unfolding tragedy of ending US aid: https://on.ft.com/4k9ECnZ

Please do have a read of this!

Jack Iwashyna@iwashyna.bsky.social · last yr.

“On Not Betraying Our Trainees, Especially Now” I won an Extraordinary Achievement Award from the Critical Care Assembly last month The @atscommunity.bsky.social premier journal @atsblueeditor.bsky.social TODAY published the remarks I made on that occasion www.atsjournals.org/doi/10.1164/...

Today is Declaration Ceremony Day and I am a very proud Director of Studies - six new members of the medical profession! @selwyn1882.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk

There are much worse ways to spend a day than at Lords, in the sunshine, with two of my favourite people (Alastair Proudfoot & Rasha Al Lamee).