The Queen's College Record 2023
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Reports and <strong>College</strong> Activities<br />
NEWS FROM THE FELLOWSHIP<br />
Links to full lists of Fellows’ publications can be found on their profile pages on the<br />
<strong>College</strong>’s website.<br />
Rina Ariga (Pathology)<br />
My research focus has been to develop an artificial<br />
intelligence test that learns patterns from routine ECG<br />
heart tracings. <strong>The</strong> AI-ECG tool is the first diagnostic test<br />
to group patients according to the underlying disease<br />
mechanism in patients with a serious and common heart<br />
muscle disease called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy,<br />
when no faulty gene is found. This year, I have obtained<br />
translational and pump-priming grant funding to further develop our understanding<br />
of the AI model into recognisable clinical features to explain subtypes of disease<br />
and ensure the results can be trusted before clinical use. I hope this work will lead<br />
to new personalised treatments and prevent heart failure. Meanwhile, I have been<br />
contributing to two important clinical working groups for the BHF CureHeart project:<br />
a cure for inherited heart muscle diseases and a Novo Nordisk-Oxford Big Data<br />
partnership project: Artificial intelligence for deep phenotyping and target discovery<br />
in heart failure.<br />
I was pleased to have suggested Queen’s first Family Guest Night, a child-friendly<br />
<strong>College</strong> dinner which was enjoyed by many families, including my own.<br />
Josu Aurrekoetxea (Physics)<br />
Over the last academic year I have continued leading the<br />
efforts in studying Einstein’s theory of general relativity to<br />
understand the nature of dark matter and the origin of the<br />
universe. Using numerical simulations, I have characterised<br />
the observational signatures of dark matter around the<br />
collision of binary black holes and the formation of relics<br />
during processes of the very early universe. This academic<br />
year has been particularly productive with five publications and over 10 seminars,<br />
many of which were part of a successful tour across North America. I have also been<br />
awarded a grant with generous computational resources by DiRAC, the National<br />
UK Supercomputing Facility, which will play a pivotal role in the research I do over<br />
the next academic year.<br />
12 <strong>The</strong> Queen’s <strong>College</strong> | <strong>College</strong> <strong>Record</strong> <strong>2023</strong>
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