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BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit at Cambridge

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The CEU is an internationally-renowned centre of excellence for the study of the causes and prevention of cardiovascular disease. www.phpc.cam.ac.uk/research/departm…

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BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit at Cambridge @cambridge-ceu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Exciting new review from @mikeinouye.bsky.social & Prof David Hunter in @nejm.org Their review explores how polygenic risk scores and pharmacogenomics could translate genomic insights into clinical practice, improving prevention and treatment of common diseases. Read more here tinyurl.com/4v9mbmd4
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BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit at Cambridge @cambridge-ceu.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🧬 New research led by @cfoguet.bsky.social , @iamslambert.bsky.social and @mikeinouye.bsky.social , published in Nature Genetics! OmicsPred brings together genetic prediction models for genes, proteins and metabolites in a single platform. Read more here: tinyurl.com/23y7uym7
Headshots of Dr Carles Foguet, Dr Sam Lambert and Professor Mike Inouye
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BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit at Cambridge @cambridge-ceu.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
As wildfires & heatwaves become more frequent, their impact goes beyond the environment, they pose risks to public health @daalenkim.bsky.social, Environmental Epidemiologist at the CEU, spoke to @cam.ac.uk to explain the impacts on public health Click to watch 👇 www.cam.ac.uk/news/wildfir...
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Wildfires and heatwaves: Expert analysis on public health impact
With wildfires and a heatwave currently raging through Europe, Dr Kim van Daalen, Environmental Epidemiologist in the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge and Research Assoc...
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BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit at Cambridge @cambridge-ceu.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
New research out from CEUs Rob Fletcher, Prof Angela Wood and colleagues! Obesity in England now affects nearly 1 in 3 adults and has risen since the COVID-19 pandemic. Inequalities are widening, with the highest rates in disadvantaged communities. 👉 Read more here: tinyurl.com/2bmj9bzj
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BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit at Cambridge @cambridge-ceu.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Members of the public had great questions about our blood plasma research #CamFest last month. 70% of the world’s plasma is imported; the UK needs a sustainable supply. The SHAPE-Plasma study is helping discover how to do this safely and effectively. Funded @nihr.bsky.social @nhsbt.bsky.social
Images taken of the public engagement at the Cambridge Festival event explaining the research on blood plasma donation to the public. The is a  simulation of plasma donation for educational purposes.
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Mike Inouye @mikeinouye.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
📣 New preprint: Plasma proteomics improves prediction of recurrent cardiovascular events www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... Wonderful work with Yang Liu, @sritchie73.bsky.social, and many at @cambridge-ceu.bsky.social
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BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit at Cambridge @cambridge-ceu.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
New paper alert 🚨 SCORE2-HF predicts heart failure risk over 10 & 30 years using routine GP data (e.g. BP, BMI, diabetes). Validated in 1.3M+ people across Europe, it helps identify high-risk adults early for prevention. Read more: academic.oup.com/eurheartj
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BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit at Cambridge @cambridge-ceu.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Last chance to get your FREE ticket to our #cambsfest panel talk! Interested in learning how environmental factors can contribute to common long-term health conditions such as heart disease, diabetes and even cancer? More info tinyurl.com/5dfmb9rf Today 6-7:30pm!
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BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit at Cambridge @cambridge-ceu.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
🌱 Four research groups from Cambridge’s @dphpc.bsky.social are the first at the university to earn Bronze Green DiSC Certification, recognising efforts to cut the environmental impact of computational research! 🏆 Congrats to all teams involved!
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BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit at Cambridge @cambridge-ceu.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Just under one week to go until our FREE #cambsfest panel talk! Interested in learning how environmental factors can contribute to common long-term health conditions such as heart disease, diabetes and even cancer? 👉Book here: tinyurl.com/5dfmb9rf 📅Mon 23 March 6-7:30pm
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BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit at Cambridge @cambridge-ceu.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
🚨 Funded PhD Opportunity (Oct 2026 start) 10 funded 4-year PhD studentships are available through @thebhf.bsky.social doctoral training programme focused on preventing cardiovascular disease through innovative, data-driven approaches 👉Info on how to apply tinyurl.com/yc7j5s67 @dphpc.bsky.social
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BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit at Cambridge @cambridge-ceu.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Interested in learning how environmental factors can contribute to common long-term health conditions such as heart disease, diabetes and even cancer? Join our panel talk hosted by @daalenkim.bsky.social at this years #CamFest 📅Mon 23 March, 6-7:30pm 👉Book here: tinyurl.com/5693xx4b
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BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit at Cambridge @cambridge-ceu.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Curious about blood and transplant research? 🩸🫀 Our full Blood and Transplant Research Unit (BTRU) seminar series is now available to watch on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@cambridgeun...
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Cambridge Uni: Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit
The Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit (CEU) at the University of Cambridge, funded by the British Heart Foundation, is an internationally-renowned centre of excellence for the study of the causes and p...
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BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit at Cambridge @cambridge-ceu.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
New paper alert! @sritchie73.bsky.social @mikeinouye.bsky.social & team found integrating genetic & metabolic blood tests with existing clinical data could enhance how doctors identify people at high risk of heart disease, leading to earlier prevention strategies Read more tinyurl.com/bp5tjck2
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Combined clinical, metabolomic, and polygenic scores for cardiovascular risk prediction
AbstractBackground and Aims. Clinical biomarkers, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) metabolomics biomarker scores, and polygenic risk scores (PRS) have show
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Ewan Harrison @ewanharrison.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Great to share the latest work from our group and collaborators. First CARRIAGE study paper led by @drdaggarwal.bsky.social and the heroic efforts of Katie Bellis and Beth Blane in the lab plus all the team at @cambridge-ceu.bsky.social Huge thanks goes to the 22,000 participants of the study
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BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit at Cambridge @cambridge-ceu.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Our team’s latest paper in @thelancetph.bsky.social explores how heart disease patterns changed before, during, and after COVID-19 in 57 million people across England🫀 Read more about these insights here: lnkd.in/er97byfM Read the full paper here lnkd.in/eN6wHxXN
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BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit at Cambridge @cambridge-ceu.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
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
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VPD Heart & Lung Research Institute @vpd-hlri.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Another Friday tour of the VPD-HLRI. Joined by members and fundraisers of the @cambridge-ceu.bsky.social
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Primary Care Unit, University of Cambridge @pcucambridge.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
There's still time to submit your abstracts to the Society for Academic Primary Care (SAPC) South East 2026 Conference! Send us your presentation, workshop and creative enquiry abstracts on 'advancing equity in primary care: building healthier communities together’: www.phpc.cam.ac.uk/sapc-se-2026
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BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit at Cambridge @cambridge-ceu.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
CEU colleagues working on Environmentally Sustainable Computing led by @loiclnlg.bsky.social have launched a digital sustainability certification scheme called Green DiSC with the first Bronze Certifications awarded 🎉 Find out more about the first Bronze Certification awardees tinyurl.com/2jt389s8
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Green DiSC: Helping researchers make computational research more sustainable | Software Sustainability Institute
The Software Sustainability Institute is delighted to announce that the first Bronze Awards from the Green DiSC certification scheme have been awarded.
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BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit at Cambridge @cambridge-ceu.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
🚨 Exciting new PhD Opportunity 🚨 Applications are open for 3-year non-clinical PhD studentships with the BHF Cambridge Centre of Research Excellence 📅 Apply by 23 Nov 2025 🌍 Open to UK & international applicants Find out how to apply here: tinyurl.com/3t59uwbn
The Relationship Between Genetic Factors and Heart Function - Conceptual Illustration
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BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit at Cambridge @cambridge-ceu.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
📢New Health Data Science podcast📢 Dr Alexia Sampri and Dr Elena Raffetti moderate a special panel discussion with Prof. John Danesh, Dr Emma Bonglack, Nick Hirschmüller and Dr Anne Forde! Listen here: ✅ open.spotify.com/episode/15Gi... ✅ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
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BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit at Cambridge @cambridge-ceu.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
📢New Health Data Science podcast Episode📢 CEU researchers Alexia Sampri, Elena Raffetti & @eliasallara.bsky.social explore the transformative impact of health data science on biomedical research Listen here: ✅ open.spotify.com/episode/27ba... ✅ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
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BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit at Cambridge @cambridge-ceu.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
🚨Exciting fully funded PhD opportunity! Applications are open for a DTP iCase interdisciplinary PhD studentship in Public Health and Primary Care supervised by @eliasallara.bsky.social Apply by 2 Dec 2025 👉 www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/dtp-ica...
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DTP iCase interdisciplinary PhD studentship in Public Health and Primary Care (non-clinical)
Applications are invited for a non-clinical PhD studentship (starting October 2026) based within the Department of Public Health and Primary Care (https://www.phpc.cam.ac.uk/), University of
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Mike Inouye @mikeinouye.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Sept is approaching & I can already hear initial chats/enquiries for potential PhD studies happening! If you're interested in a PhD, check out our department @cam.ac.uk www.phpc.cam.ac.uk/education-an... We've a super interdisciplinary faculty spanning primary care, data science, epidemiology etc
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Doctoral Training | Department of Public Health and Primary Care (PHPC)
Course Code – MDPU22 A doctorate from the University of Cambridge is primarily a research degree based on a research programme developed in conjunction with a supervisor.
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BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit at Cambridge @cambridge-ceu.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Congratulations to Carmen Petitjean who recently passed her PhD viva! 🎉 Thank you to her supervisor Prof Angela Wood and her examiners Nora Pashayan @dphpc.bsky.social and Elizabeth Williamson @lshtm.bsky.social We wish Carmen all the best with the next steps of her career!
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BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit at Cambridge @cambridge-ceu.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
📢New Health Data Science podcast episode out now📢 CEU researchers Alexia Sampri, Elena Raffetti & @eliasallara.bsky.social explore the transformative impact of health data science on biomedical research Listen here: ✅ open.spotify.com/episode/1VHv... ✅ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
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BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit at Cambridge @cambridge-ceu.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
🎯Hear about strategies to reward, integrate and reciprocate blood donor time with our BTRU #Seminar on #blooddonor behaviour🩸 🗓️ Monday 08 September 2025 ⏰ 13:00-14:00 👉Seminar by Dr Kathleen Chell, Australian Red Cross Lifeblood 🔗Email donorhealth@medschl.cam.ac.uk for the online link.
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BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit at Cambridge @cambridge-ceu.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
📢New Health Data Science podcast📢 CEU researchers Alexia Sampri, Elena Raffetti & @eliasallara.bsky.social explore the transformative impact of health data science on biomedical research Listen here: ✅ open.spotify.com/episode/3VGq... ✅ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
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Insights from Dr Anne Forde
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BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit at Cambridge @cambridge-ceu.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
📢New Health Data Science Episode Available📢 CEU researchers Alexia Sampri, Elena Raffetti & @eliasallara.bsky.social explore the transformative impact of health data science on biomedical research Listen here: ✅ open.spotify.com/episode/045Y... ✅ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
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Insights from Professor Tim Chico
Health Data Science Insights - Cambridge · Episode
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BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit at Cambridge @cambridge-ceu.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
🎉 Huge congratulations to Amy Mason – voted Most Popular Mathematician in I’m a Mathematician 2025! 🏆 She’s taken part in 28+ live Chats, sharing her work, challenges, and passion for maths with students across the UK. 💬 Read more about it here: tinyurl.com/mezbkhdk
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BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit at Cambridge @cambridge-ceu.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
AI doesn't always live up to the hype — for polygenic scores regression-based methods remain undefeated Congratulations to Martin Kelemen @aidanbutty.bsky.social & @mikeinouye.bsky.social who's paper has been featured on the Nature Communications Editors’ Highlights webpage tinyurl.com/2wr65zw3
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Editors' Highlights | Nature Communications
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Cambridge Biomedical Campus @cambridgebiocampus.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Summer has arrived and we are bringing together our community to watch Wimbledon and 18 free films on a big screen at the heart of the Cambridge Biomedical Campus between 30th June and 14th July. Completely free and open to everyone, find out more: cambridge-biomedical.com/event/big-sc...
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BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit at Cambridge @cambridge-ceu.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
It has been great to take part in Regional Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) Week with @cambridgebrc.bsky.social On Monday we were at @royalpapworth.bsky.social looking for volunteers for our new PPI panel!
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BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit at Cambridge @cambridge-ceu.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Can deep-learning be used for polygenic risk scores? New paper out in @natcomms.nature.com! To find out more read here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @mikeinouye.bsky.social @aidanbutty.bsky.social @yuxu.bsky.social
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Performance of deep-learning-based approaches to improve polygenic scores - Nature Communications
Polygenic scores aim to capture genetic risk but may miss nonlinear genetic and environmental interactions. Here, the authors show that neural networks detect limited nonlinearity and do not outperfor...
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BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit at Cambridge @cambridge-ceu.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
We recently welcomed Dr Alexander Mörseburg to the CEU! In his previous work with @ims-mrl.bsky.social & @mrcepid.bsky.social he built a protein-based “aging clock” using data from 44k+ people. Having #type2diabetes & higher #BMI were associated with faster biological aging 👉 tinyurl.com/4uhse44v
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Genetic determinants of proteomic aging - npj Aging
npj Aging - Genetic determinants of proteomic aging
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Mike Inouye @mikeinouye.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
📣 Latest from the lab: Performance of deep-learning-based approaches to improve polygenic scores www.nature.com/articles/s41... Its thought deep learning will substantially improve PGS but the reality is MANY have tried but no/little gain has been seen so far. Here we report our negative results.
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Sam Lambert @iamslambert.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
@hasanga.bsky.social from @mikeinouye.bsky.social / @cambridgebaker.bsky.social @cambridge-ceu.bsky.social sharing new results for local-ancestry effects on CAD risk loci. #ESHG2025
Hasanga presenting at ESHG 2025
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Loïc Lannelongue @loiclnlg.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Featuring a great talk by @christinabremer.bsky.social and contributing to 1st and 3rd places at the hack-day! (Very excited about the winning project 👀) @cambridge-ceu.bsky.social @cambridgebrc.bsky.social
Woman talking in front of a slide saying “E-SCOUT: environmentally sustainable computer trial”5 people posing with tote bags7 people posing in front of a screen reading “hackday 3rd place”Roller banner for Green DiSC
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NIHR Biomedical Research Centre: Cambridge @cambridgebrc.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
👉 Researcher based in Cambridge/ East of England? 👉 Want to learn about Ethnicity inclusion in research training? 👉 04 June - 12.30 - 14.00 (online) 👉 Last few places! Book now! georgina.norris3@nhs.net @cuh.nhs.uk @cambridge-ceu.bsky.social @mrcepid.bsky.social @pcucambridge.bsky.social
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BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit at Cambridge @cambridge-ceu.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
🚨 Exciting job opportunity for an early career researcher! Join the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit as a Research Assistant/Associate (BHF Scholarship) and explore cutting-edge cardiovascular research! 👉 Apply now tinyurl.com/yc66uz6k #CardiovascularResearch #PublicHealth #BHF #Epidemiology
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Research Assistant/Research Associate* in Cardiovascular Epidemiology (BHF Scholarship) (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Assistant/Research Associate* in Cardiovascular Epidemiology (BHF Scholarship) (Fixed Term) in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit at the Univer...
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BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit at Cambridge @cambridge-ceu.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
We are now on Bluesky! Follow us to keep up to date with our research and find out what goes on at the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit in the @dphpc.bsky.social #cardiovasculardisease #prevention #healthcare #bigdata #globalhealth #publichealth #riskfactors
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