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Dr T Alexander A Quinn
Research Fellow
National Heart & Lung Institute
Heart Science Centre
Harefield Hospital
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Dr T Alexander Quinn
Dr Alex Quinn is joining the Harefield Heart Science Centre from January 2011 as part of the Cardiac Biophysics and Systems Biology group, headed by Prof Peter Kohl.
Alex studied Physiology and Physics at McGill University (1996-2000). During this time, he investigated white blood cell adhesion in the laboratory of Prof Harry Goldsmith at the Montreal General Hospital Research Institute. His graduate research was based at the Biomedical Engineering Department of Columbia University New York (2001-2008), both with Prof Jeffrey Holmes’ Cardiac Biomechanics Group and Prof Henry Spotnitz’ team at the Department of Surgery. Alex developed techniques to optimise biventricular pacing as a then novel therapy for acute cardiac dysfunction, and investigated changes in ventricular mechanical function after corrective surgery for congenital heart defects. In 2008 he won one of the coveted Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Postdoctoral Research Fellowships, and joined Professor Peter Kohl’s Mechano-Electric Feedback at Oxford. His research is focused on the effect of the mechanical environment on heart rhythm, in particular in the context of arrhythmia induction, for which he has been awarded a Project Grant by the British Heart Foundation.
Alex combines a strong background in biomedical, mathematical, and physical sciences with extensive exposure to clinical research. His work exemplifies the translational approach, involving multi-scale and multi-modal techniques that include direct iteration between engineering-based experimentation and advanced computational modelling. He maintains a well-developed network of international collaborators and servers as a reviewer for international journals and funding bodies. He will retain connections to Oxford, both as a Fulford Junior Research Fellow in the Medical Sciences at Somerville College (2010-now) and as an Affiliated Fellow of the Oxford Computing Laboratory (2010-now), where he is supervising several PhD Projects in the Life Sciences Interface Doctoral Training Centre.
