Home Academic Staff :
- Dr Steffen E Petersen, Reader and Centre Lead
- Dr. Francesca Pugliese, Senior Lecturer
- Dr Samson Omosule, Bioinformatician
- Dr Ceri Davies, Senior Lecturer
- Dr Constantinos Anagnostopoulos, Senior Lecturer
- Dr. Redha Boubertakh, Honorary Lecturer, Clinical MR Physicist
- Dr Marc Miquel, Honorary Senior Lecturer, Clinical Physicist
- Valerie Seago, BRU Manager
Barts and The London NHS Trust and School of Medicine and Dentistry have been awarded by the National Institute for Health Research to become one of five Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Units. This is a prestigious award from October 2008 to March 2012 allowing strategic investments into infrastructure, research staff and research themes. This provides a platform for intensifying already existing translational research collaborations between the cardiovascular basic and clinician scientists at the William Harvey Research Institute and the Barts and The London NHS Trust.
The Barts and The London NIHR Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit focusses on key translational themes:
- Genetics and biomarkers of cardiovascular disease.
- Cardiovascular stem cell therapy.
- Translational vascular pharmacology.
- Ischemia reperfusion (IR) injury and microcirculation research.
- Translational cardiac electrophysiology and devices research.
- Translational advanced cardiovascular imaging.
With our clinical colleagues and close collaborators we share state-of-the-art facilities for non-invasive multi-modality cardiovascular imaging tools: cardiac computer tomography, cardiovascular magnetic resonance, PET/CT and echocardiography. This presents an excellent environment for imaging the effect of novel therapies which could apply across the UK population and the international community. We expect the research activity to grow rapidly with the creating of this new Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging Centre. Thanks to an NIHR capital grant awarded in 2009 we have been able to establish an extremely attractive Cardiovascular Imaging Research and Education Centre.
