Life Sciences

Aljasir, S., Eid, N., Volpi, E., Tewfik, I. and Bin Obaid, N.M. 2026. Navigating Obesity Through Nutrigenetic Dietary Interventions: Evidence from Young Saudi Women. Clinical Nutrition Open Science. 65 100614. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nutos.2025.12.008

Nowak, M., Núñez, L., Pagliaro, T., Robson, M.D., Duncker, C., Kaplan, L.M., Heymsfield, S.B., Thomaides Brears, H., Bell, J.D. and Thomas, E.L. 2026. Weight-related changes in MRI-derived measures of body composition and liver steatosis: a large-scale analysis for obesity trial design. International Journal of Obesity. 50, pp. 1087-1096. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41366-026-02037-y

Needham, S.R., Davis, B.M., Uysal Onganer, P., Rolfe, D.J., Hristova, M., Kraev, I., Inal, J. and Lange, S. 2026. Profiling Protein Citrullination in Extracellular Vesicles by Single‐Molecule Detection Using Direct Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy. Journal of Biophotonics. 19 (3) e202500483. https://doi.org/10.1002/jbio.202500483

Tilman Todt, Inge van Bussel, Lydia Afman, Lorraine Brennan, Diana G. Ivanova, Yoana Kiselova-Kaneva, E. Louise Thomas and Ralph Rühl 2026. Transcriptome-driven Health-status Transversal-predictor Analysis for health, food, microbiome and disease markers for understanding of lifestyle diseases. Physiological Genomics. 58 (1), pp. 58-70. https://doi.org/10.1152/physiolgenomics.00026.2025

Harriet Comer-Calder and Hassan Oliver James Morad 2026. The paradox of NET involvement in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease. Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. 32 (1), pp. 169-181. https://doi.org/10.1093/ibd/izaf283

Kalli, I., Niglas, M., Naeini, M.K., Freidin, M.B., Thomas, E.L., Menni, C. and Williams, F. 2026. Paraspinal muscle quality in chronic low back pain: A systematic review and meta-analysis of muscle atrophy and fat infiltration. European Spine Journal. 35, pp. 2693-2711. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00586-025-09454-z

James Hatherley, Paul Collinson, Eduard Shantsila, David C. Gaze and Aleem Khand 2026. Clinical impact of current evidence on cardiac troponin structure, function and release mechanisms - An up to date review. Annals of Clinical Biochemistry: International Journal of Laboratory Medicine. 63 (3), pp. 191-207. https://doi.org/10.1177/00045632251378025

Nowak, M., Nunez, L., Hill, C.E., Pagliaro, T., McGonigle, J., Niglas, M., Bell-Bradford, C., Robson, M.D., Thomaides Brears, H., Thomas, E.L. and Bell, J.D. 2026. Automated volumetric MRI quantification of body fat and skeletal muscle in the UK Biobank: technical validation against expert manual segmentations and comparison with single-slice techniques. Abdominal Radiology. 51, pp. 2180-2191. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00261-025-05170-w

Ji, M.X., Thanaj, M., Nehale-Ezzine, L., Whitcher, B., Thomas, E.L. and Elliott, J. 2026. Deep learning predicts onset acceleration of 38 age-associated diseases from blood and body composition biomarkers in the UK Biobank. Geroscience. 48, pp. 1415-1482. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11357-025-01702-w

El Badaoui, L., Jurcevic, S., Senis, Y. and Barr, A.J. 2026. Targeting CD148 for Antithrombotic Therapy: Functional and Molecular Evaluation of AKB-9778. Pharmacology Research & Perspectives. 14 (4) e70301. https://doi.org/10.1002/prp2.70301

Basty, N., Sorokin, E., Thanaj, M., Whitcher, B., Liu, Y., Bell, J.D., Thomas, E.L. and Cule, M. 2026. Cardiovascular measures from abdominal MRI provide insights into abdominal vessel genetic architecture. Communications Medicine. 6 70. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-025-01242-6

Mattin, L.R. 2025. Stretching boundaries and leaving our comfort zones. The Physiological Society.

Basnett, P. Forthcoming. Stents. wo/2019/043384

Mohammed, M. 2025. Written Evidence: Addressing the risks of antimicrobial resistance among refugees and asylum seekers. UK Parliament.

Lee, J. 2025. Interpretable multimodal AI for predicting early biological cell responses to biomaterial implant coatings. Third Workshop on Multimodal AI. Barbican Centre, London 16 - 17 Sep 2025

Lee, J. 2025. Predictive AI for screening next-generation bone implant coatings. Materials, Minerals & Mining for People, Places, Planet. Millennium Point, Birmingham 11 - 12 Nov 2025 The Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining.

Marta M. Gámez-Fernández, Helena Tiekou Lorinczova, Stefanie Ho Yi Chan, Satyanarayana Somavarapu, Vinood B. Patel, Sanjoy K. Deb and Mohammed Gulrez Zariwala 2025. Co-administration of curcumin forms with supplemental iron: a study of effects on iron absorption and intestinal cellular health. Food & Function. 16 (14), pp. 5917-5927. https://doi.org/10.1039/d5fo00658a

Ahmed, D. 2025. Identification of Roles for Peptidylarginine Deiminases (PADs) In Models of Nervous System Regeneration, Assessing Capacities of Pharmacological PAD Inhibitor Application. PhD thesis University of Westminster Life Sciences https://doi.org/10.34737/x76vx

Mone, F. 2025. Healthy CKD Event 26 February 2025.

Bowman, K. 2025. Accelerating the Commercial Implementation of Electromethanogenic Reactors. PhD thesis University of Westminster Life Sciences https://doi.org/10.34737/x6zz5

Gvamichava, Rusudan 2025. Evaluating the effectiveness of a family-based nutrition intervention to enhance healthy eating among children aged 6–12 years in Tbilisi, Georgia . PhD thesis University of Westminster Life Sciences https://doi.org/10.34737/x6zz4

Mone, F. 2025. Insights into Food and Nutrition Provision in Palliative and End-of-Life Care in London. School of Life Sciences RKE Symposium. University of Westminster, London 15 Jan 2026

Surendranath, K., Chaurasia, H., Akhtar, M.M., Akhtar, M.M., Murphy, J.J., Dinmukhamedova, A. and Tleumbetova, N.N. 2025. Advancing Research-Integrated Education: The Gene Editors Network of Excellence for Multidisciplinary Student Innovations and Global Impact. British Educational Research Association Conference 2025. University of Sussex 09 - 11 Sep 2025 Wiley.

Stephen P. H. Alexander, Anthony P. Davenport, Eamonn Kelly, Alasdair J. Gibb, Alistair A. Mathie, Chloe J. Peach, Emma L. Veale, Jane F. Armstrong, Elena Faccenda, Simon D. Harding, Christopher Southan, Jamie A. Davies, Maria Pia Abbracchio, George R. Abraham, Alexander Agoulnik, Wayne Alexander, Khaled Al‐hosaini, Magnus Bäck, Jillian G. Baker, Nicholas M. Barnes, Ross Bathgate, Jean‐Martin Beaulieu, Annette G. Beck‐Sickinger, Maik Behrens, Kirstie A. Bennett, Kenneth E. Bernstein, Bernhard Bettler, Nigel J. M. Birdsall, Victoria A. Blaho, Pascal Bonaventure, Francois Boulay, Corinne Bousquet, Hans Bräuner‐Osborne, Andrew J. Brown, Geoffrey Burnstock, Marta Busnelli, Girolamo Caló, Vanni Caruso, Justo P. Castaño, Kevin J. Catt, Stefania Ceruti, Paul Chazot, Nan Chiang, Bice Chini, Arthur Christopoulos, Jerold Chun, Antonia Cianciulli, Olivier Civelli, Lucie H. Clapp, Réjean Couture, Helen M. Cox, Zsolt Csaba, Claes Dahlgren, Frank M. Dautzenberg, Gordon Dent, Steven D. Douglas, Pascal Dournaud, Margarita L. Dubocovich, Satoru Eguchi, Emanuel Escher, Edward J. Filardo, Tung Fong, Huamei Fu Forsman, Marta Fumagalli, Raul R. Gainetdinov, Michael L. Garelja, Marc de Gasparo, Florence Gbahou, Craig Gerard, Marvin Gershengorn, Michelle Glass, David E. Gloriam, Fernand Gobeil, Theodore L. Goodfriend, Cyril Goudet, Lukas Grätz, Karen J. Gregory, Christian Gruber, Andrew L. Gundlach, Jörg Hamann, Julien Hanson, Deborah S. Hartman, Richard L. Hauger, Debbie L. Hay, Akos Heinemann, Laura Heitman, Deron R. Herr, Morley D. Hollenberg, Nicholas D. Holliday, Birgitte Holst, Mastgugu Horiuchi, Daniel Hoyer, László Hunyady, Ahsan Husain, Adriaan P. IJzerman, Tadashi Inagami, Paul A. Insel, Kenneth A. Jacobson, Laura H. Jacobson, Robert T. Jensen, Ralf Jockers, Deepa Jonnalagadda, Sadashiva Karnik, Klemens Kaupmann, Jacqueline Kemp, Charles Kennedy, Yasuyuki Kihara, Julia Kinsolving, Takio Kitazawa, Pawel Kozielewicz, Hans‐Jürgen Kreienkamp, Jyrki P. Kukkonen, Luxmichan Laishram, Tobias Langenhan, Christopher J. Langmead, Dan Larhammar, Katie Leach, Davide Lecca, John D. Lee, Susan E. Leeman, Jérôme Leprince, Rob Leurs, Xaria X. Li, Ines Liebscher, Stephen J. Lolait, Amelie Lupp, Robyn Macrae, Janet J. Maguire, Davide Malfacini, Maurice Manning, Davide Marangon, Kirill Martemyanov, Jean Mazella, Craig A. McArdle, Shlomo Melmed, Martin C. Michel, Laurence J. Miller, Vincenzo Mitolo, Bernard Mouillac, Christa E. Müller, Philip M. Murphy, Jean‐Louis Nahon, Richard R. Neubig, Tony Ngo, Xavier Norel, Duuamene Nyimanu, Anne‐Marie O’Carroll, Stefan Offermanns, Maria Antonietta Panaro, Marc Parmentier, Nicole Perry‐Hauser, Roger G. Pertwee, Jean‐Philippe Pin, Eric R. Prossnitz, Helena Chengxue Qin, Mark Quinn, Stefano Raffaele, Rithwik Ramachandran, Manisha Ray, Rainer K. Reinscheid, Alejandro Romeral Buzón, Philippe Rondard, Mette M. Rosenkilde, G. Enrico Rovati, Chiara Ruzza, Gareth J. Sanger, Nicole Scholz, Torsten Schöneberg, Gunnar Schulte, Stefan Schulz, Deborah L. Segaloff, Charles N. Serhan, Arun K. Shukla, Khuraijam Dhanachandra Singh, Craig M. Smith, Nicola J. Smith, Claudia Stäubert, Leigh A. Stoddart, Yukihiko Sugimoto, Roger Summers, Valerie P. Tan, David M. Thal, Walter ( Wally) Thomas, Pieter B. M. W. M. Timmermans, Kalyan Tirupula, Lawrence Toll, Giovanni Tulipano, Hamiyet Unal, Thomas Unger, Celine Valant, Patrick Vanderheyden, David Vaudry, Hubert Vaudry, Joseph G. Verbalis, Jean‐Pierre Vilardaga, Christopher S. Walker, Ji Ming Wang, Donald T. Ward, Hans‐Jürgen Wester, Gary B. Willars, Tom Lloyd Williams, Trent M. Woodruff, Huixian Wu, Cheng Yang, Chengcan Yao, Richard D. Ye and Nathan Zaidman 2025. The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2025/26: G protein‐coupled receptors. British Journal of Pharmacology. 182 (S1), pp. S24-S151. https://doi.org/10.1111/bph.70230

Stephen P. H. Alexander, Doriano Fabbro, Alasdair J. Gibb, Eamonn Kelly, Alistair A. Mathie, Chloe J. Peach, Emma L. Veale, Jane F. Armstrong, Elena Faccenda, Simon D. Harding, Christopher Southan, Jamie A. Davies, Stephanie Annett, Detlev Boison, Kathryn Elisa Burns, Carmen Dessauer, Jürg Gertsch, Nuala Ann Helsby, Angelo A. Izzo, Rennolds Ostrom, Ester Pagano, Andreas Papapetropoulos, Nigel J. Pyne, Susan Pyne, Tracy Robson, Roland Seifert, Johannes‐Peter Stasch, Csaba Szabo, Mario van der Stelt, Albert van der Vliet, Val Watts and Szu Shen Wong 2025. The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2025/26: Enzymes. British Journal of Pharmacology. 182 (S1), pp. S307-S403. https://doi.org/10.1111/bph.70234

Stephen P. H. Alexander, Doriano Fabbro, Chloe J. Peach, Alasdair J. Gibb, Eamonn Kelly, Alistair A. Mathie, Emma L. Veale, Jane F. Armstrong, Elena Faccenda, Simon D. Harding, Christopher Southan, Jamie A. Davies, Annie Beuve, Peter Brouckaert, Clare Bryant, John C. Burnett, Richard W. Farndale, Andreas Friebe, John Garthwaite, Adrian J. Hobbs, Gavin E. Jarvis, Laura Kilpatrick, Doris Koesling, Michaela Kuhn, Birgit Leitinger, David MacEwan, Tom P. Monie, Lincoln R. Potter, Michael Russwurm, Harald H. H. W. Schmidt, Johannes‐Peter Stasch and Scott A. Waldman 2025. The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2025/26: Catalytic receptors. British Journal of Pharmacology. 182 (S1), pp. S259-S306. https://doi.org/10.1111/bph.70233

Stephen P. H. Alexander, John A. Cidlowski, Alasdair J. Gibb, Eamonn Kelly, Alistair A. Mathie, Chloe J. Peach, Emma L. Veale, Jane F. Armstrong, Elena Faccenda, Simon D. Harding, Christopher Southan, Jamie A. Davies, Laurel Coons, Peter J. Fuller, Kenneth S. Korach, Donald P. McDonell, Robert Oakley, Sarah Radi, Rachid Safi, Frances Sladek and Morag J. Young 2025. The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2025/26: Nuclear hormone receptors. British Journal of Pharmacology. 182 (S1), pp. S242-S258. https://doi.org/10.1111/bph.70232

Stephen P. H. Alexander, Alasdair J. Gibb, Eamonn Kelly, Alistair A. Mathie, Chloe J. Peach, Emma L. Veale, Jane F. Armstrong, Elena Faccenda, Simon D. Harding, Christopher Southan, Jamie A. Davies, Laura Amarosi, Catriona M. H. Anderson, Philip M. Beart, Stefan Broer, Paul A. Dawson, Gergely Gyimesi, Bruno Hagenbuch, James R. Hammond, Jules C. Hancox, Michal Hershfinkel, Ken‐ichi Inui, Yoshikatsu Kanai, Stephan Kemp, Edmund R. S. Kunji, Gavin Stewart, Sotiria Tavoulari, David T. Thwaites and Tiziano Verri 2025. The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2025/26: Transporters. British Journal of Pharmacology. 184 (S1), pp. S404-S496. https://doi.org/10.1111/bph.70235

Stephen P. H. Alexander, Jörg Striessnig, Alasdair J. Gibb, Alistair A. Mathie, Emma L. Veale, Eamonn Kelly, Chloe J. Peach, Jane F. Armstrong, Elena Faccenda, Simon D. Harding, Christopher Southan, Jamie A. Davies, Richard W. Aldrich, Bernard Attali, Austin M. Baggetta, Elvir Becirovic, David J. Beech, Martin Biel, Roslyn M. Bill, Ana I. Caceres, William A. Catterall, Han Chow Chua, Alex C. Conner, Henry Danahay, Paul Davies, Katrien De Clerq, Markus Delling, Francesco Di Virgilio, Simonetta Falzoni, Wei Fang, Stefanie Fenske, Anna Fortuny‐Gomez, Samuel Fountain, George K. Chandy, Mohammad‐Reza Ghovanloo, Steve A. N. Goldstein, Martin Gosling, Christian Grimm, Stephan Grissmer, Kotdaji Ha, Tim G. Hales, Verena Hammelmann, Israel Hanukoglu, Meiqin Hu, Ad P. Ijzerman, Sairam V. Jabba, Mike Jarvis, Anders A. Jensen, Sven E. Jordt, Leonard K. Kaczmarek, Stephan Kellenberger, Charles Kennedy, Brian King, Philip Kitchen, Qiang Liu, Joseph W. Lynch, Rian W. Manville, Jessica Meades, Verena Mehlfeld, Annette Nicke, Stefan Offermanns, Edward Pérez‐Reyes, Leigh D. Plant, Stephan A. Pless, Lachlan D. Rash, Dejian Ren, Hussein N. Rubaiy, Mootaz M. Salman, Werner Sieghart, Lucia G. Sivilotti, Trevor G. Smart, Terrance P. Snutch, Paolo Tammaro, Jinbin Tian, James S. Trimmer, Charlotte Van den Eynde, Paola Vergani, Joris Vriens, Stephen G. Waxman, Aguan D. Wei, Brenda T. Winn, Heike Wulff, Haoxing Xu, Fan Yang, Lixia Yue, Xiaoli Zhang and Michael Zhu 2025. The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2025/26: Ion channels. British Journal of Pharmacology. 182 (S1), pp. S152-S241. https://doi.org/10.1111/bph.70231

Stephen P. H. Alexander, Alasdair J. Gibb, Eamonn Kelly, Alistair A. Mathie, Chloe J. Peach, Emma L. Veale, John A. Cidlowski, Anthony P. Davenport, Doriano Fabbro, Michael Spedding, Jörg Striessnig, Jane F. Armstrong, O. Peter Buneman, Elena Faccenda, Simon D. Harding, Christopher Southan, Jamie A. Davies, Katelin E. Ahlers‐Dannen, Mohammed Alqinyah, Thiruma V. Arumugam, Christopher Bodle, Josephine Buo Dagner, Bandana Chakravarti, Shreoshi P. Choudhuri, Kirk M. Druey, Rory A. Fisher, Kyle J. Gerber, John R. Hepler, Shelley B. Hooks, Havish S. Kantheti, Behirda Karaj, Somayeh Layeghi‐Ghalehsoukhteh, Jae‐Kyung Lee, Zili Luo, Kirill Martemyanov, Luke D. Mascarenhas, Harrison McNabb, Carolina Montañez‐Miranda, Osita Ogujiofor, Hoa Phan, David L. Roman, Vincent Shaw, Benita Sjogren, Christopher Sobey, Mackenzie M. Spicer, Katherine E. Squires, Laurie Sutton, Menbere Wendimu, Thomas Wilkie, Keqiang Xie, Qian Zhang and Yalda Zolghadri 2025. The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2025/26: Introduction and Other Protein Targets. British Journal of Pharmacology. 182 (S1), pp. S1-S23. https://doi.org/10.1111/bph.70229

Elena Chiavacci, Kirstine Fleng Steffensen, Pierre Delaroche, Emanuele Astoricchio, Amalie Bech Poulsen, Daniel Brayson, Fulvio Garibaldi, Luca Lanteri, Christian Pinali, Giovanni Roppo Valente, Federico Vignati, John Fleng Steffensen, Holly Shiels, Eva Terzibasi Tozzini and Alessandro Cellerino 2025. Preprint: Resilience to cardiac aging in Greenland shark Somniosus microcephalus. biorxiv.org. https://doi.org/10.64898/2025.12.20.695706

Ignatius Srianta, Ira Nugerahani, Chatarina Yayuk Trisnawati, Susana Ristiarini and Ihab Tewfik 2025. Tailored 3D Food Printing Ink Recipe With Isolated Soyprotein, Tempeh Flour and Probiotic: Comparison of Durianseed Flour, Sodium Alginat and Xanthan Gum As Ahydrocolloid. Carpathian Journal of Food Science and Technology. https://doi.org/10.34302/crpjfst/2025.17.4.2

Kate M. Crowther, Thibault R.H. Jouen-Tachoire, Peter Proks, Peter Rory Hall, Emma L. Veale, Janina Sörmann, Karin E.J. Rödström, Thomas Müller, Saskia B. Wortmann, Nina Barisic, Natalie Hauser, Vincenzo Salpietro Damiano, RaeLynn Forsyth, Linford Williams, Carlos A. Bacino, Jill A Rosenfeld, Henry Houlden, Simon Newstead, Caroline F. Wright, James Fasham, Mathie, A., Reza Maroofian and Stephen J. Tucker 2025. Preprint: Equivalent Gain-of-Function Variants in KCNK3 and KCNK9 and their Contribution to Distinct TASK K2P Channelopathies. medRxiv. https://doi.org/10.64898/2025.12.15.25342159

Meg O’Loughlin and Regina Murphy Keith 2025. An exploratory analysis of enablers of exclusive breastfeeding in England: Positive deviance in practice. World Nutrition. 16 (4), pp. 55-68. https://doi.org/10.26596/wn.202516455-68

Li, R., Needham, S.R., Kraev, I., Hristova, M. and Lange, S. 2025. Extracellular vesicle signatures from eye lavage as novel non-invasive biomarkers for hypoxic ischaemic insult—findings from a neonatal mouse model. Frontiers in Medical Technology. 7 1715676. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmedt.2025.1715676

Fabia Hannan Mone, Regina Murphy Keith, Atiqur Rahman Sarker, Sharon Noonan-Gunning and Ihab Tewfik 2025. 406 Qualitative comparative analysis of experiences of female public health care workers in the UK and Bangladesh. European Journal of Public Health. 35 (Supplement_6) ckaf180.288. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckaf180.288

Kosciuszko, M., Huen, H., Simpson, L., Mattin, L.R., Wizard, O., Lett, A., Mcclelland, I., Kraus, W.E., Huffman, K., Martin, C.K., Das, S.K., Racette, S.B. and Dorling, J.L. 2025. Association between dietary fibre intake and body composition and inflammatory markers in healthy adults without obesity: A cross-sectional analysis. 32nd European Congress On Obesity . Malaga, Spain 11 - 14 May 2025 European Association for the Study of Obesity.

Mattin, L.R. 2025. Gut microbes may have links with sleep deprivation. The Conversation. https://doi.org/10.64628

Chowdhury, H., Mujral, M., Eniafe, A., McIver, V.J. and Mattin, L.R. 2025. How does exercise suppress appetite in females? A feasibility study into the role of the menstrual cycle. Rob Clarke Award 2025. The Royal Society of Medicine 04 Dec 2025 The Physiological Society.

Chowdhury, H., Mujral, M., Eniafe, A., McIver, V.J. and Mattin, L.R. 2025. How does exercise suppress appetite in female participants? The role of the menstrual cycle. Rob Clarke Award 2025. The Royal Society of Medicine 04 Dec 2025 The Physiological Society.