Philip Gemmell

After completing his MPhysPhil in Physics & Philosophy, Dr Philip Gemmell moved on to complete his DPhil in Systems Biology at the University of Oxford, specialising in Computational Biology. His dissertation focussed on reproducing experimentally observed variation in cardiac electrophysiology using variability in cellular ion channels as the underlying cause, and the potential consequences of this variability in the cardiac response to pathological conditions. He then expanded and refined these techniques while working at Clyde Biosciences while looking to determine the mechanisms of variation between populations of stem cell derived heart cells. He subsequently joined CEMRG until 2022, where he developed interest in whole torso computational modelling, with specific focus on the effect of scar on the electrical dynamics of the heart, and how subtle changes in the clinical observations can be used to determine properties of myocardial scar prior to imaging.