Ehsan Razaghi

Ehsan is a DPhil student at the University of Oxford, fully funded by Trinity College and the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics. His research integrates computational approaches with experimental biology to investigate how the heart forms and regenerates. By comparing zebrafish heart development and regeneration with mammalian cardiac systems, Ehsan aims to understand how immune cells, particularly macrophages, are programmed by the cardiac niche, and how these macrophages in turn shape cardiac regenerative environments.

Prior to his DPhil, Ehsan completed a BSc in Biomedical Sciences at Leiden University, followed by two Master’s programmes: an MSc in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology at the University of Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and an MSc in Biomedical Sciences at Leiden University. His first Master’s thesis, conducted in the Simões group, focused on immune-related microniches in the regenerating zebrafish heart. His second thesis, carried out in the Davis and Mummery groups, focused on engineering an inducible cardiac organoid system to enable controlled, high-throughput induction of myocardial injury.