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Improving the nation’s cardio-vascular health: the BHF Data Science Centre

25 February 2020

Following discussions with UK cardiovascular research leaders, health care data custodians across all four UK nations, Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) and a range of other stakeholders, in June...

News announcement

Millions of patients to benefit from £10M national cardiovascular data science centre

2 October 2019

British Heart Foundation and Health Data Research UK announce Director of ground-breaking new centre aiming to link health data to save and improve lives

Associated researcher

Professor Sandosh Padmanabhan

Professor of Cardiovascular Genomics and Therapeutics at University of Glasgow

Professor Sandosh Padmanabhan’s research combines epidemiology and randomised clinical trials incorporating high-throughput genomics and metabolomics in the dissection of cardiovascular traits...

Associated researcher

Professor Isla Mackenzie

Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at University of Dundee

Professor Isla Mackenzie is Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Honorary Consultant Physician at the University of Dundee and Ninewells Hospital, Dundee. She is the Deputy Director of the...

Associated researcher

Professor David Newby

Chair of Cardiology at The University of Edinburgh

Professor David Newby is British Heart Foundation Duke of Edinburgh Chair of Cardiology at the University of Edinburgh. He led the SCOT-HEART trial which demonstrated that a CT scan could diagnose...

Fellow

Dr Tom Lumbers

UKRI Innovation Fellow at UCL (University College London)

Dr Tom Lumbers is an Honorary Consultant Cardiologist at Barts Heart Centre, HDR UK Fellow at University College London, and Visiting Scientist at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. He...

Science Strategy Board

Cathie Sudlow

Research Director

Professor Cathie Sudlow is a clinical neurologist and epidemiologist. Her clinical work involves assessing and treating patients with suspected acute stroke (or ‘brain attack’) in the hospital...

Science Strategy Board

John Danesh

Research Director

Professor John Danesh is Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine and Head of the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at the University of Cambridge. Alongside his role as Research...

News announcement

British Heart Foundation announces plans for a new UK cardiovasular data science centre

7 August 2018

The British Heart Foundation (BHF) has signalled its intention to create a new centre for data science to continue its ground-breaking research into heart and circulatory disease, in partnership...