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Medical Research Council
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Novo Nordisk
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Nikita Ved
PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- EPA Cephalosporin Junior Research Fellow, Linacre College, Oxford
- Stipendiary Lecturer, Merton College, Oxford
Targeting immunomodulation following cardiac injury
I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Professor Paul Riley's group in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics.
I studied neuroscience at the University of Bristol for my undergraduate degree and obtained my PhD from University College London in 2016, working on the anti-angiogenic therapy for diabetic retinopathy at the Institute of Ophthalmology. During this time, I also investigated the effects of VEGF splice variants in the treatment of diabetic neuropathy in collaboration with the University of Nottingham. In 2015 I was awarded the British Microcirculation Society Young Investigators Prize for my work on microvascular dysfunction in the diabetic retina.
In 2016 I was awarded a Novo Nordisk Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, investigating how pre-existing maternal diabetes induces embryonic heart defects with Dr Duncan Sparrow and Professor Dame Frances Ashcroft. I am also continuing research into how hyperglycaemia/hypoinsulinemia affects the retinal microvasculature.
I am now investigating how functional manipulation of the cardiac lymphatic vasculature impacts upon the immune response to improve heart function and remodelling after a heart attack.
Recent publications
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Journal article
Ved N. et al, (2018), The Journal of Physiology, 596, 3675 - 3693
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Bates DO. et al, (2018), Compr Physiol, 8, 955 - 979
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Journal article
Ved N. et al, (2017), Clinical Science, 131, 1225 - 1243
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Hulse RP. et al, (2015), Clinical Science, 129, 741 - 756
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Journal article
Leszkowicz E. et al, (2012), European Journal of Neuroscience, 35, 1433 - 1445