Awards, public engagement, funding and events from the Cardiac Electro-Mechanics Research Group.https://cemrg.co.uk/https://cemrg.co.uk/news/open-heart-models-downloads/https://cemrg.co.uk/news/open-heart-models-downloads/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.Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cemrg.co.uk/news/fimh-2027-london/https://cemrg.co.uk/news/fimh-2027-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.Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cemrg.co.uk/news/summer-school-2026/https://cemrg.co.uk/news/summer-school-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.Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cemrg.co.uk/news/wccm-eccomas-2026/https://cemrg.co.uk/news/wccm-eccomas-2026/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.Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cemrg.co.uk/news/steven-niederer-stanford/https://cemrg.co.uk/news/steven-niederer-stanford/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.Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cemrg.co.uk/news/fetal-medicine-world-congress-2026/https://cemrg.co.uk/news/fetal-medicine-world-congress-2026/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.Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cemrg.co.uk/news/hamlyn-symposium-2026/https://cemrg.co.uk/news/hamlyn-symposium-2026/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.Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cemrg.co.uk/news/great-exhibition-road-festival-2026/https://cemrg.co.uk/news/great-exhibition-road-festival-2026/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.Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cemrg.co.uk/news/paper-cardioseqm-a-scalable-and-context-aware-model-for-unified-he/https://cemrg.co.uk/news/paper-cardioseqm-a-scalable-and-context-aware-model-for-unified-he/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.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cemrg.co.uk/news/mimec-launches/https://cemrg.co.uk/news/mimec-launches/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.Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cemrg.co.uk/news/openepnet/https://cemrg.co.uk/news/openepnet/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.Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cemrg.co.uk/news/tiffany-baptiste-reflections-of-research/https://cemrg.co.uk/news/tiffany-baptiste-reflections-of-research/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.Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://cemrg.co.uk/news/summer-school-2025/https://cemrg.co.uk/news/summer-school-2025/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.Mon, 06 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://cemrg.co.uk/news/oncological-digital-twins-workshop/https://cemrg.co.uk/news/oncological-digital-twins-workshop/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.Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://cemrg.co.uk/news/fickle-heart-2025/https://cemrg.co.uk/news/fickle-heart-2025/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.Mon, 08 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://cemrg.co.uk/news/presidents-award-2025/https://cemrg.co.uk/news/presidents-award-2025/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.Mon, 14 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://cemrg.co.uk/news/famelab-2025/https://cemrg.co.uk/news/famelab-2025/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'.Fri, 06 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://cemrg.co.uk/news/digital-twin-populations/https://cemrg.co.uk/news/digital-twin-populations/Shuang Qian and colleagues built a population of cardiac digital twins with machine learning, and published the results in Nature Cardiovascular Research.Fri, 16 May 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://cemrg.co.uk/news/three-minute-thesis-2025/https://cemrg.co.uk/news/three-minute-thesis-2025/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'.Wed, 26 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://cemrg.co.uk/news/stem-for-britain-2025/https://cemrg.co.uk/news/stem-for-britain-2025/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.Tue, 11 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://cemrg.co.uk/news/tiffany-baptiste-science-communication/https://cemrg.co.uk/news/tiffany-baptiste-science-communication/Tiffany was one of the winners of the HSDTC Science Communication Competition, with a short article on personalised approaches to healthcare.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://cemrg.co.uk/news/mit-technology-review-2024/https://cemrg.co.uk/news/mit-technology-review-2024/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.Thu, 19 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://cemrg.co.uk/news/miccai-2024-challenges/https://cemrg.co.uk/news/miccai-2024-challenges/Abdul took first place in the AIMS-TBI challenge at MICCAI 2024, second in UWF4DR and FETA, and third in MBH-Seg and CARE.Sun, 06 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://cemrg.co.uk/news/cvd-net/https://cemrg.co.uk/news/cvd-net/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.Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://cemrg.co.uk/news/barbara-ell-lecture-2024/https://cemrg.co.uk/news/barbara-ell-lecture-2024/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.Fri, 13 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://cemrg.co.uk/news/great-exhibition-road-festival-2024/https://cemrg.co.uk/news/great-exhibition-road-festival-2024/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.Sat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://cemrg.co.uk/news/fickle-heart-2024/https://cemrg.co.uk/news/fickle-heart-2024/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.Mon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://cemrg.co.uk/news/digital-twin-insider-interview/https://cemrg.co.uk/news/digital-twin-insider-interview/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.Wed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://cemrg.co.uk/news/times-digital-heart/https://cemrg.co.uk/news/times-digital-heart/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'.Wed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://cemrg.co.uk/news/ai-uk-2024/https://cemrg.co.uk/news/ai-uk-2024/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.Tue, 19 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://cemrg.co.uk/news/marina-strocchi-reflections-of-research/https://cemrg.co.uk/news/marina-strocchi-reflections-of-research/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.Fri, 01 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://cemrg.co.uk/news/rosie-barrows-science-communication/https://cemrg.co.uk/news/rosie-barrows-science-communication/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.Fri, 01 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://cemrg.co.uk/news/group-joins-nhli/https://cemrg.co.uk/news/group-joins-nhli/CEMRG moved from King's College London to the Cardiac Function Section at the NHLI, based at ICTEM next to Hammersmith Hospital.Fri, 01 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://cemrg.co.uk/news/in-silico-trials-review/https://cemrg.co.uk/news/in-silico-trials-review/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.Fri, 30 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://cemrg.co.uk/news/cardiac-digital-twins-workshop-2023/https://cemrg.co.uk/news/cardiac-digital-twins-workshop-2023/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.Tue, 07 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT