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News Research Updates October 2021

Research Updates October 2021

Nov 01 2021 Posted: 04:07 GMT

Valentina has a new PhD student, Griffen Small who has started this month. Griffen is doing a PhD in applied maths and his project is about the mathematical modelling of the viscoelastic behaviour of soft tissues.
Harold started to work on the “Modelling and simulation of impact waves in brain matter” under a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship. https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101023950
Aaron and Pilib have been granted a US patent (US Patent 11,092,591) on their work with colleagues in New York to identify blood-based biomarkers for radiation injury. This work has applications in the triage and monitoring of exposed individuals following radiological incidents.
Pilib's group hosted Alexandre Petellier from Fabien Delahaye's lab at the Institut Pasteur de Lille for two weeks as part of an IRC Ulysses award. The two groups have started a collaboration around the use of deep learning methods for batch correction of single-cell RNA-sequencing data in fetal growth disorders.
Pilib appeared on the Iris Aniar radio programme (RnaG) on 21/9 to discuss the DTIF award on developing cancer immunotherapies and on 27/10 to discuss his group's work in predicting antibody-mediated graft rejection in kidney transplant patients.