A list of the current PI-led Research Groups within the Coronary & Valvular Heart Disease research theme. The Coronary & Valvular Heart Disease theme has several research groups that specialise in various topics within this theme. Name Area of Expertise Philip Adamson Cardiology Andy Baker Vascular injury and repair, non-coding RNA, and advanced therapies Cecile Benezech Mature cell function, Inflammation, lymphoid tissue Mairi Brittan Cardiovascular regeneration Andrea Caporali Ischemic disease, vascular signalling during post-ischaemic angiogenesis and vascular repair Karen Chapman Glucocorticoids, developmental processes, in utero effects, metabolism of liver and heart You Ying Chau Adipose cell lineage and heterogeneity, visceral/subcutaneous adipose tissue Mihaela Crisan Pericytes, endothelial cell interaction Fernando de la Cuesta Martin Denvir Cardiology Marc Dweck Novel imaging of aortic stenosis, cardiomyopathy, and coronary atherosclerosis Paddy Hadoke Mechanisms that regulate arterial function; endothelium, new blood vessel formation, and lesion formation Peter Henriksen Cardiology, Cardiac CT/MRI Maurits Jansen Preclinical imaging Gianfranco Matrone Molecular mechanisms of cardiovascular development, repair, and regeneration Mark Miller Cardiovascular effects of air pollution, engineered nanoparticles Nick Mills Clinical cardiology, healthcare data, cardiac biomarkers and data-enabled clinical trials James Minchin Adipose cell biology, model organisms, genetics, In vivo imaging, CRISPR mutagenesis screens Tijana Mitic Epigenetics of vascular dysfunction in injury and hypoxia; Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) targeting chromatin, their interaction with Polycomb and RNA binding proteins, Repurposing of PRC2 inhibitors for cardiovascular therapy Carmel Moran Ultrasound imaging, therapy and ultrasonic contrast agents David Newby Experimental medicine; advanced imaging of coronary heart disease, aortic stenosis, and heart failure Bruno Peault Vascular Regeneration Sari Pennings Epigenetics in development and environmental exposure; nuclear chromatin control of gene expression Scott Semple Non-invasive clinical imaging Adriana Tavares PET imaging, radiotracers This article was published on 2024-03-19
