Coronary and Valvular Heart Disease Research Groups

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.

NameArea of Expertise
Philip AdamsonCardiology
Andy BakerVascular injury and repair, non-coding RNA, and advanced therapies
Cecile BenezechMature cell function, Inflammation, lymphoid tissue
Mairi BrittanCardiovascular regeneration
Andrea CaporaliIschemic disease, vascular signalling during post-ischaemic angiogenesis and vascular repair
Karen ChapmanGlucocorticoids, developmental processes, in utero effects, metabolism of liver and heart
You Ying ChauAdipose cell lineage and heterogeneity, visceral/subcutaneous adipose tissue
Mihaela CrisanPericytes, endothelial cell interaction
Martin DenvirCardiology
Marc DweckNovel imaging of aortic stenosis, cardiomyopathy, and coronary atherosclerosis
Paddy HadokeMechanisms that regulate arterial function; endothelium, new blood vessel formation, and lesion formation
Peter HenriksenCardiology, Cardiac CT/MRI
Maurits JansenPreclinical imaging
Gianfranco MatroneMolecular mechanisms of cardiovascular development, repair, and regeneration
Mark MillerCardiovascular effects of air pollution, engineered nanoparticles
Nick MillsClinical cardiology, healthcare data, cardiac biomarkers and data-enabled clinical trials
James MinchinAdipose cell biology, model organisms, genetics, In vivo imaging, CRISPR mutagenesis screens
Tijana MiticEpigenetics 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 MoranUltrasound imaging, therapy and ultrasonic contrast agents
David NewbyExperimental medicine; advanced imaging of coronary heart disease, aortic stenosis, and heart failure
Sari PenningsEpigenetics in development and environmental exposure; nuclear chromatin control of gene expression
Scott SempleNon-invasive clinical imaging
Adriana TavaresPET imaging, radiotracers