
Dunja Aksentijevic Ricciarelli
@dunjaaks
Professor of Cardiovascular Physiology & Metabolism, Wellcome Trust Fellow, Director of Education William Harvey Research Institute
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The highlight of any academic mentors career: letting your PhD student know there is that “manuscript accepted” email from the editor in your inbox. Ivana Ivana Iveljic First (PhD thesis) paper ✅ 🎉 🍾#CardioOncology #proudmentor

Happy #InternationalWomensDay2025 to amazing colleagues, students, collaborators, role models and mentors. Too many to tag! And from all corners of the world 🫀🗺️ This may (still) be a man’s world but it would be nothing, NOTHING without us! 🌹💪🏻👩🏻🔬 Barts Metabolism Network COST Action EU-METAHEART


Congratulations A/Prof Lana McClements for leading a team of international scientists and industry collaborators. Thank you for the opportunity to make a small contribution to your study 🇦🇺🇬🇧👇🏻 Paper out now in Journal of Translational Medicine

2025 COST Action EU-METAHEART meeting sucessfully completed 🇪🇺. This year hosted by our 🇬🇷colleagues in Heraklion 🏺and in memory of our dear colleague IOANNA ANDREADOU. 🙏🏻 Until next time! Luca Liberale Christoph Maack Gabriele G. Schiattarella Simon Sedej Katrin Streckfuss-Bömeke Luc Bertrand


In anticipation (and preparation!) of my professorial inauguration this summer Barts and The London, Queen Mary William Harvey Research Institute Queen Mary University of London , I had some special visitors at work! Still pretty petrified that Prof Aksentijevic senior (aka mum!) will tell me I am not working hard enough! 🙇🏻♀️😂 #rolemodels


Looking forward to hosting British Society for Cardiovascular Research British Society for Cardiovascular Research Autumn Meeting (Sept 3rd, 4th) at the beautiful and historic Charterhouse Square William Harvey Research Institute Barts and The London, Queen Mary . Exciting line up of speakers confirmed. Save the date! bscr.org/meetings/bscr2…


When Mama’s scientific family from #LosAngeles Cedars-Sinai come bearing the coolest gifts and become Sofia’s instant #TaylorSwift bffs! Anja Karlstaedt you legend 🙇🏻♀️🙏🏻🫶🏻


Exciting times! 🎉 Longstanding collaborator Prof Anja Karlstaedt visited our lab William Harvey Research Institute today to discuss all things #cardiacmetabolism 🫀 Your insights are always invaluable, and good to explore new avenues for collaboration! 🫀⚡️🥂



🦇🦇 New preprint out!🚨 We reveal unique cardiac metabolic adaptations in the Egyptian fruit bat—supporting flight, longevity & life in low oxygen. First cardiac metabolomic map in bats! 👉biorxiv.org/content/10.110… William Harvey Research Institute QM_SBBS Rossiter Lab @ QMUL Fenn Cullen Anja Karlstaedt



Grateful to John R. Ussher Jordan SF Chan & American Diabetes Association for featuring our T2D cardiomyopathy model in their editorial.Of Mice and Men: Toward a Better Model of Diabetic Cardiomyopathy With Application in Female Animals diabetesjournals.org/diabetes/artic… William Harvey Research Institute Wellcome

Huge congratulations Simon Sedej University of Graz 🇦🇹on your Outstanding Investigator Award at ISHR World Congress, Nara 🇯🇵. Richly deserved! 👏🏻COST Action EU-METAHEART ISHR European Section


Huge thanks to ISHR2025 in Nara chairs & organizers for the chance to share our William Harvey Research Institute Barts and The London, Queen Mary 🫀metabolism research! Excited to see Megan Young present our Barts Metabolism Network poster on Na elevation in #T2D, and grateful for the talk invite! Chris Faulkes Wellcome


The best part of ISHR2025 in Nara world congress countless catch ups, coffees, dinners and cocktails with 🌍scientific family 🫀🫶🏻 Dr Kate Weeks Anja Karlstaedt Simon Sedej Luc Bertrand Prof Rebecca Ritchie Heather Group Kim Mellor Lea Durham Delbridge Bell-Lab: Cardiac Disease Mechanisms John R. Ussher Davor Pavlovic


