Principal investigators in theme:
Name: Professor Margaret Ashcroft
Dept: Department of Medicine
Email: m.ashcroft@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Molecular cell biology
WWW: http://www.med.cam.ac.uk/ashcroft/
Themes: cancer, cardiovascular science and medcine, functional genomics, systems biology and genetic medicine, structural and molecular cell biology
Students:Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Professor Martin Bennett
Dept: Department of Medicine (Division of Cardiovascular Medicine)
Email: mrb24@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Regulation of vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation and apoptosis
WWW: http://www.med.cam.ac.uk/bennett/
Themes: cardiovascular science and medicine
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr John Bradley
Dept: Department of Medicine
Email: jrb1000@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Regulation and function of death receptors in the microvasculature; factors influencing access to treatment and outcomes for patients with chronic kidney disease
WWW: http://www.med.cam.ac.uk/bradley/
Themes: cardiovascular science and medicine
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Murray Clarke
Dept: Department of Medicine (Division of Cardiovascular Medicine)
Email: mchc2@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Novel mechanisms that induce vascular inflammation; particularly IL-1 family members and inflammasomes
WWW: http://www.med.cam.ac.uk/clarke/
Themes: infection and immunity, cardiovascular science and medicine, cancer
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor John Danesh
Dept: Department of Public Health and Primary Care
Email: johndaneshpa@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Molecular and genetic epidemiology of coronary heart disease
WWW: http://www.phpc.cam.ac.uk/people/ceu-group/ceu-senior-academic-staff/professor-john-danesh/
Themes: epidemiology and public health, cardiovascular science and medicine
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Anthony Davenport
Dept: Department of Medicine (EMIT)
Email: apd10@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Role of G-protein coupled receptors in the human cardiovascular system and changes in signalling pathways in disease. Discovery of biased apelin receptor agonists. Publications: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2096-3117
WWW: https://www.cardiovascular.cam.ac.uk/directory/adavenport/
Themes: cardiovascular science and medicine
Students: Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Tai-Ping Fan
Dept: Department of Pharmacology
Email: tpf1000@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Pharmacology of angiogenesis and natural products
WWW: http://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/directory/tpf1000@cam.ac.uk
Themes: metabolic medicine, integrative and comparative physiology, structural and molecular cell biology, cardiovascular science and medicine
Students:Sorry no students can be taken this year
Name: Professor Richard Farndale
Dept: Department of Biochemistry
Email: rwf10@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Collagen, collagen receptors and the regulation of cell function
WWW: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/uto/farndale.html
Themes: developmental and regenerative biology and medicine, cardiovascular science and medicine
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr James Fraser
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: jaf21@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Combining computer modelling and experimental work to investigate the relationship between membrane potential, cell volume and intracellular ion concentrations in normal and arrhythmic hearts
WWW: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/fraser/
Themes: cardiovascular science and medicine, metabolic medicine, integrative and comparative physiology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Dino Giussani
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: dag26@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Hypoxia and developmental origins of cardiovascular health and disease
WWW: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/giussani
Themes: metabolic medicine, integrative and comparative physiology, developmental and regenerative biology and medicine, women's health, cardiovascular science and medicine
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Jane Goodall
Dept: Department of Medicine (Division of Cardiovascular Medicine)
Email: jcg23@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Sensing of chlamydia infection and cellular stress. Role of ER stress in inflammation and cardiovascular disease
WWW: https://www.immunology.cam.ac.uk/Networkdirectory/jcg23@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Themes: cardiovascular science and medicine
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Andrew Grace
Dept: Department of Biochemistry
Email: aag1000@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Functional effects of genetic mutations associated with cardiac arrhythmias in genetically modified mice and clinical studies
WWW: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/uto/grace.html
Themes: cardiovascular science and medicine, metabolic medicine, integrative and comparative physiology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Jules Griffin
Dept: Department of Biochemistry (Cambridge Systems Biology Centre)
Email: j.l.griffin@bioc.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Development of NMR spectroscopy, mass spectrometry and pattern recognition techniques for metabolomics
WWW: http://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/uto/griffin.html
Themes: functional genomics, systems biology and genetic medicine, cardiovascular science and medicine
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Chris Huang
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: clh11@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Calcium and cellular activation processes in skeletal and cardiac muscle, including mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmogenesis
WWW: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/huang/
Themes: metabolic medicine, integrative and comparative physiology, structural and molecular cell biology, cardiovascular science and medicine
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor James Huntington
Dept: Department of Haematology (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research)
Email: jah52@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Molecular recognition in haemostasis
WWW: http://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/research/principal-investigators/principal-investigators-a-h/huntington
Themes: cardiovascular science and medicine, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Helle Jorgensen
Dept: Department of Medicine (Division of Cardiovascular Medicine)
Email: hfj22@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Epigenetic regulation in cardiovascular development and disease
WWW: http://www.med.cam.ac.uk/jorgensen/
Themes: cardiovascular science and medicine, developmental and regenerative biology and medicine, genomics, systems biology and genetic medicine
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Thomas Krieg
Dept: Department of Medicine( EMIT)
Email: tk382@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Ischaemia/reperfusion injury
WWW: https://emit.medschl.cam.ac.uk/people/investigators/dr-thomas-krieg/
Themes: cardiovascular science and medicine
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Claudia Langenberg
Dept: MRC Epidemiology Unit
Email: claudia.langenberg@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Epidemiology of diabetes and cardiovascular complications
WWW: http://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/research/research-areas/aetiology-of-diabetes
Themes: epidemiology and public health, metabolic medicine, cardiovascular science and medicine
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Wei Li
Dept: Department of Medicine
Email: wl225@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Mechanisms of endothelial BMP signalling in cardiovascular diseases
WWW: https://www.cardiovascular.cam.ac.uk/directory/wli
Themes: cardiovascular science and medicine, structural and molecular cell biology
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Xuan Li
Dept: Department of Medicine
Email: xl315@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Microtubule-dependent mechanism in regulating inflammatory diseases
WWW: https://www.cardiovascular.cam.ac.uk/directory/xuan-li
Themes: cardiovascular science and medicine, infection and immunity
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Ziad Mallatt
Dept: Department of Medicine (Division of Cardiovascular Medicine)
Email: zm255@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Topic: The roles of innate and adaptive immunity in the development and progression of vascular diseases (atherosclerosis and vascular aneurysm) and response to post-ischemic injury
WWW: http://www.med.cam.ac.uk/mallat/
Themes: cardiovascular science and medicine
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Nick Morrell
Dept: Department of Medicine (Division of Respiratory Medicine)
Email: nwm23@cam.ac.uk
Topic: The molecular pathology of primary pulmonary hypertension
WWW: http://www.med.cam.ac.uk/morrell/
Themes: cardiovascular science and medicine
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Michael Murphy
Dept: MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit
Email: michael.murphy@mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Targeting molecules to mitochondria, mitochondrial radical production, thiol redox state and redox signalling
WWW: http://www.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk/people/mike-murphy
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, metabolic medicine, integrative and comparative physiology, cardiovascular science and medicine
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Andrew Murray
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: ajm267@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Mitochondrial metabolism in cardiac and skeletal muscle
WWW: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/murray/
Themes: metabolic medicine, integrative and comparative physiology, cardiovascular science and medicine, women's health
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Kevin O'Shaugnessy
Dept: Department of Medicine (Division of Clinical Pharmacology)
Email: kmo22@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Topic: The molecular genetics of essential hypertension and pre-eclampsia, and the role of salt in hypertension
WWW: http://www.clinpharm.medschl.cam.ac.uk/people/oshaughnessy.html
Themes: cardiovascular science and medicine
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Willem Ouwehand
Dept: Department of Haematology (Transfusion Medicine)
Email: who1000@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Gene sequence variation in human platelets and atherothrombosis
WWW: http://www.haem.cam.ac.uk/staff/senior-staff/professor-willem-h-ouwehand
Themes: infection and immunity, cardiovascular science and medicine
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr James Rudd
Dept: Department of Medicine (Division of Cardiovascular Medicine)
Email: jhfr2@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Non-invasive imaging can quantify and track inflammation in human and animal vascular disease
WWW: http://www.cambridgecancercentre.org.uk/users/jhfrudd
Themes: cardiovascular science and medicine, medical imaging
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Stewart Sage
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: sos10@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Calcium signalling in blood platelets
WWW: http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/sage/
Themes: structural and molecular cell biology, cardiovascular science and medicine
Students: Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Dr Amanda Sferruzzi-Perri
Dept: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Email: ans48@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Placental development and function and its relevance for pregnancy success and life-long health
WWW: https://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/directory/amanda-sferruzzi-perri
Themes: cardiovascular science and medicine, developmental and regenerative biology and medicine, metabolic medicine, integrative and comparative physiology, women's health
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Nicole Soranzo
Dept: Wellcome Sanger Institute
Email: ns6@sanger.ac.uk
Topic: Human complex traits
WWW: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/groups/soranzo-group
Themes: cardiovascular science and medicine, functional genomics, systems biology and genetic medicine, infection and immunity
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Charlotte Summers
Dept: Department of Medicine
Email: cs493@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Neutrophil-endothelial cell interaction in acute and chronic inflammation
WWW: https://www.med.cam.ac.uk/summers/
Themes: cardiovascular science and medicine, infection and immunity, medical imaging
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Mark Toshner
Dept: Department of Medicine
Email: mrt23@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Topic: Pulmonary hypertension
WWW: https://www.med.cam.ac.uk/staff/mark-toshner/
Themes: cardiovascular science and medicine
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Professor Antonio Vidal-Puig
Dept: Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Institute of Metabolic Science)
Email: ajv22@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Molecular mechanisms of energy balance
WWW: http://www.mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/staff/PI/VidalPuig/
Themes: metabolic medicine, integrative and comparative physiology, cardiovascular science and medicine
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Jonathan Weir-McCall
Dept: Department of Radiology
Email: jw2079@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Cardiothoracic imaging, particularly in the use of CT and MRI
WWW: http://radiology.medschl.cam.ac.uk/about-us/departmental-staff/research-staff/dr-jonathan-weir-mccall/
Themes: medical imaging, cardiovascular science and medicine
Students: Sorry no vacation students can be taken this year but enquiries from potential PhD students are welcome
Name: Professor Ian Wilkinson
Dept: Department of Medicine (Division of Clinical Pharmacology)
Email: ibw20@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Endothelial cell biology, large artery haemodynamics and hypertension: clinical investigation
WWW: http://www.clinpharm.medschl.cam.ac.uk/people/wilkinson.html
Themes: cardiovascular science and medicine
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
Name: Dr Catherine Wilson
Dept: Department of Pharmacology
Email: chw39@cam.ac.uk
Topic: Cardiovascular cell signalling
WWW: https://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/
Themes: cardiovascular science and medicine
Students: Applications from potential students are welcome
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