University of Oxford
Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics
Senior Fellow of the British Heart Foundation


Developments in Computational Physiology – the VPH/Physiome Project

Peter Kohl read Medicine and Biophysics at the Moscow Pirogov Institute (1981-1987) and, after post-graduate training and research at the Berlin Charité (PhD 1990, Facharzt 1991), he joined the Cardiac Electrophysiology group of Denis Noble at Oxford (1992). In 1998, Dr Kohl set up the Cardiac Mechano-Electric Feedback lab, which currently comprises twelve staff and several students. The team conducts research into the mechanisms and implications of cardiac mechano-sensitivity, from the sub-cellular level to clinical models, using 'wet' experimental and 'dry' computational techniques. He is the principal investigator on a number of UK RC funded projects and, jointly with Peter Coveney (UCL), he co-leads the EC Network of Excellence dedicated to the Virtual Physiological Human.

For further information please see Peters website:

http://www.physiol.ox.ac.uk/~pk/