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Over 2,700 open heart models, downloaded 88,000 times
The group's 16 public collections of cardiac and torso meshes, shared on Zenodo with its collaborators, now hold more than 2,700 models and have been downloaded over 88,000 times.
FIMH 2027 is coming to London
Steven Niederer is on the organising committee of the 14th conference on Functional Imaging and Modelling of the Heart, FIMH 2027, to be held from 8 to 11 June 2027 at the London Institute for Healthcare Engineering.
People: Steven Niederer
Online at FIMH 2027
Cardiac Digital Twin Summer School returns in October 2026
A second week of teaching on cardiac digital twins, from 5 to 9 October 2026 at the Alan Turing Institute, free to attend and run through CVD-Net. Applications have closed.
Online at CVD-Net
A minisymposium on data-driven cardiovascular modelling
Cristobal Rodero co-organised a minisymposium on data-driven modelling of the human cardiovascular system at WCCM-ECCOMAS 2026, the world congress on computational mechanics, in Munich.
People: Cristobal Rodero
Online at WCCM-ECCOMAS 2026
Steven Niederer joins Stanford as Professor of Medicine
Steven became Professor of Medicine in the Cardiovascular Medicine division of the Stanford University School of Medicine on 1 July 2026, and keeps his Chair in Biomedical Engineering at Imperial.
People: Steven Niederer
Online at Stanford Report
Fetal heart digital twins at the World Congress in Fetal Medicine
Steven Niederer was invited to present the group's fetal ECG analysis tools and maternal-fetal cardiac digital twins at the Fetal Medicine Foundation's World Congress in Vienna.
People: Steven Niederer, Ludovica Cicci
CemrgApp at the Hamlyn Symposium
José Alonso Solís-Lemus presented 'CemrgApp: A Sustainable and Accessible Platform for Cardiovascular Research' at the Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics workshop on open source software for surgical technologies.
People: José Alonso Solís-Lemus
Online at Hamlyn Symposium
3D-printed hearts at the Great Exhibition Road Festival
The group was back at the festival on 6 and 7 June 2026, with a stand in the Queen's Tower Rooms where visitors watched 3D printers at work, segmented hearts in our games and tested what they knew about the heart in mini-games.
People: Cristobal Rodero, Aditi Kulkarni, Angela Lee, Anna Hekkink, Arthur Lefebvre, Edward Ashton, Isaac Hayden, Ludovica Cicci, Maximilian Balmus, Molly Monks, Rosie Barrows, Shambhavi Malik, Sheng-Ya Wang, Tiffany Baptiste
Online at Cristobal Rodero on LinkedIn
One model to segment the heart across CT and MRI
Abdul Qayyum, Moona Mazher and Steven Niederer presented CardioSeqM, a single model that segments the left atrium, the whole heart and myocardial pathology, in the MICCAI challenge proceedings on real-world medical images.
People: Abdul Qayyum, Steven Niederer
MiMeC launches, a centre for model-informed medicine with Oxford and GSK
Imperial, Oxford and GSK opened a centre applying mechanistic and data-driven modelling to the development of drugs, devices and lifestyle interventions, backed by 11 million pounds.
Online at Imperial College London
OpenEP|NET, a national platform for heart rhythm data, is funded
The Medical Research Council awarded £2.4 million to OpenEP|NET, a national database to use the data collected during electrophysiology procedures to guide the care of people with atrial fibrillation. Steven Niederer is part of its technical team.
People: Steven Niederer
Online at Imperial College London
Tiffany Baptiste is shortlisted for the BHF's Reflections of Research competition
Tiffany's image 'The Heart's Fatty Armour' was shortlisted for the British Heart Foundation's Reflections of Research competition, for images from the research it funds.
People: Tiffany Baptiste
Online at King's School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences
The group led the Cardiac Digital Twin Summer School
A week of teaching on building and calibrating cardiac digital twins, run through CVD-Net at the Alan Turing Institute, with sessions on cardiac mechanics modelling.
Online at CVD-Net
A workshop on the mathematics of cancer digital twins
Steven Niederer and Helen Byrne hosted two days at the Isaac Newton Institute on the mathematical foundations of digital twins for cancer, supported by the Alan Turing Institute.
People: Steven Niederer
Online at CRUK Convergence Science Centre
Fickle Heart 2025 in Sheffield
Steven Niederer, Richard Clayton and Gary Mirams ran Fickle Heart 2025 at the University of Sheffield, two days on managing uncertainty in predictive cardiac modelling.
People: Steven Niederer
Online at CVD-Net
The group receives Imperial's President's Award for Excellence in Impact
Imperial recognised the group's work on personalised computer models of the heart, cardiac digital twins, with the President's Award for Excellence in Impact.
People: Steven Niederer
Online at Imperial College London
Tiffany Baptiste is the audience winner at the FameLab UK final
Tiffany won the London final of FameLab, the science communication competition, and at the UK final at the Cheltenham Science Festival was the audience winner and a joint runner-up with her talk 'From Heartbreak to Digital Healing'.
People: Tiffany Baptiste
Online at Cheltenham Festivals
Thousands of cardiac digital twins give new insight into conduction and repolarisation
Shuang Qian and colleagues built a population of cardiac digital twins with machine learning, and published the results in Nature Cardiovascular Research.
People: Shuang Qian
Online at Imperial College London
Rosie Barrows and Tiffany Baptiste reach the final of King's Three Minute Thesis
Rosie and Tiffany were two of the nine finalists in the King's Three Minute Thesis final on 26 March 2025, with the talks 'Cardiac Digital Twins: from Code to Care' and 'The Heart's Hidden Springs: A New Way to Treat Atrial Fibrillation'.
People: Rosie Barrows, Tiffany Baptiste
Online at King's College London
Rosie Barrows wins silver at STEM for Britain
Rosie won silver in the mathematics section of STEM for Britain in Parliament, with her poster 'Cardiac Digital Twins: From Code to Care' on in silico trials of how arrhythmias affect the heart's function.
People: Rosie Barrows
Online at Parliamentary and Scientific Committee
Tiffany Baptiste wins a science communication competition
Tiffany was one of the winners of the HSDTC Science Communication Competition, with a short article on personalised approaches to healthcare.
People: Tiffany Baptiste
MIT Technology Review on digital twins of the heart
MIT Technology Review's feature on digital twins of human organs described Steven Niederer's virtual hearts, built from the scans of patients treated at Hammersmith Hospital, on which procedures can be tried before an operation.
People: Steven Niederer
Online at MIT Technology Review
Abdul Qayyum wins the AIMS-TBI challenge at MICCAI 2024
Abdul took first place in the AIMS-TBI challenge at MICCAI 2024, second in UWF4DR and FETA, and third in MBH-Seg and CARE.
People: Abdul Qayyum
Online at Abdul Qayyum
CVD-Net, networks of cardiovascular digital twins
An EPSRC-funded programme with the Alan Turing Institute, Sheffield and Nottingham, building connected digital twins with pulmonary arterial hypertension as the first clinical target.
Online at CVD-Net
Steven Niederer gives a Barbara Ell lecture in Sydney
Steven spoke on 'The Digital Heart: Using Mathematics to Model the Heart from Cell to Clinic' at the University of New South Wales St Vincent's Sydney Health Innovation Precinct Research Week.
People: Steven Niederer
Online at UNSW Sydney
Hearts, balloons and live art at the Great Exhibition Road Festival
At the 2024 Great Exhibition Road Festival the group 3D printed over 100 hearts and gave away more than 200 balloons, while artist Maha Shami painted 'Heartfelt Customisation', inspired by Cristobal Rodero's personalised heart simulators.
People: Cristobal Rodero, Tiffany Baptiste, Rosie Barrows
Online at PA Media
Fickle Heart at the Isaac Newton Institute
The group organised 'Fickle Heart: the intersection of UQ, AI and digital twins', two days at the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge on uncertainty, machine learning and cardiac digital twins.
Online at Isaac Newton Institute
Interview: building digital twins of the heart
Steven Niederer spoke to Digital Twin Insider about CVD-Net and about what makes a digital twin: a model of one patient that is kept up to date with their data.
People: Steven Niederer
Online at Digital Twin Insider
The Times on digital hearts in the NHS
The Times reported on CVD-Net, the group's project to test digital twins of the heart with NHS patients, under the headline 'Can a digital heart predict your health? The NHS is finding out'.
Online at The Times
Cardiac digital twins on show at AI UK
The group ran a booth, 'Cardiac digital twins: personalising medical care with AI', at the Alan Turing Institute's AI UK 2024, showing virtual hearts for personalised care to researchers, the public and policymakers.
People: Tiffany Baptiste, Ludovica Cicci, José Alonso Solís-Lemus, Marina Strocchi, Cristobal Rodero
Online at AI UK
Marina Strocchi wins the BHF's Reflections of Research competition
Her image 'Paths of the heart' was the judges' winner of the British Heart Foundation's 2023 competition for images from the research it funds.
People: Marina Strocchi
Online at British Heart Foundation
Rosie Barrows wins a King's science communication prize
Rosie won the 2023 Science Communication Prize of the Health Sciences Doctoral Training Centre (HSDTC) at King's, with a short newspaper-style article on her research.
People: Rosie Barrows
Online at King's College London (archived)
The group joined the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial
CEMRG moved from King's College London to the Cardiac Function Section at the NHLI, based at ICTEM next to Hammersmith Hospital.
People: Steven Niederer
Online at Imperial College London
The first systematic review of cardiac in silico trials
Cristobal Rodero and Steven Niederer reviewed a decade of cardiac in silico clinical trials in Progress in Biomedical Engineering, and found that many leave out patient demographics and few share their code or data.
People: Cristobal Rodero, Steven Niederer
Online at Imperial College London
A workshop on cardiac digital twins in London
More than 100 clinicians, industry researchers, academics and people from government met in London to work towards a shared understanding of what a cardiac digital twin is and should do.
People: Steven Niederer
Online at The Alan Turing Institute
