British Heart Foundation Leicester Centre of Research Excellence
Our team
The Centre is led by award Director, Professor Andre Ng with support from Centre Manager Natalie Matthewman.
Research is carried out by the BHF Leicester Centre of Research Excellence (CRE) theme leads, co-applicants and additional investigators, as well as PhD students and research fellows funded by the BHF CRE Award.
The Centre has an External Scientific Advisory Board of internally renowned experts to provide independent external scientific advice to the CRE Executive.
Leadership Team
- Director: Professor Andre Ng
- Deputy Director: Professor Matt Bown
- Centre Manager: Natalie Matthewman
- Discovery theme leads: Professor Matt Brown and Dr Tom Webb
- Interventions theme leads: Professor Gerry McCann and Dr Anvesha Singh
- Populations theme leads: Professor Kamlesh Khunti and Dr Claire Lawson
- Training Champion: Professor Veryan Codd
- EDI Champion: Dr Anvesha Singh
- PPIE Champion: Professor Kamlesh Khunti
- Interdisciplinary Champion: Professor Huiyu Zhou
- Commercialisation Champion: Professor Thanos Saratzis
Research teams by theme
Each research area has a dedicated team of experts, to ensure we deliver the highest possible outcomes for the Centre.
Discovery
- Prof David Adlam
- Dr Aidan Bolger
- Prof Matt Bown
- Dr Veryan Codd
- Dr Radek Debiec
- Prof Frank Dudbridge
- Dr Pankaj Gupta
- Dr Catherine John
- Prof Don Jones
- Dr David McVey
- Dr Chris Nelson
- Prof Leong Ng
- Dr Richard Packer
- Dr Charles Solomon
- Prof Toru Suzuki
- Prof Martin Tobin
- Prof Louise Wain
- Dr Tom Webb
Interventions
- Dr Elina Akalestou
- Prof Ashiq Anjum
- Dr Ranjit Arnold
- Dr Lucy Beishon
- Prof Peter Bradding
- Prof James Burton
- Dr Reshma Chauhan
- Prof Melanie Davies
- Prof Louise Goff
- Dr Matt Graham-Brown
- Dr Gaurav Gulsin
- Dr Jan Kovac
- Dr Xin Li
- Prof Gerry McCann
- Dr Jatinder Minhas
- Prof Gavin Murphy
- Prof Andre Ng
- Dr Dimitris Papamargaritis
- Dr Katy Roach
- Prof Tom Robinson
- Prof Thanos Saratzis
- Dr Anvesha Singh
- Prof Ian Squire
- Dr Shirley Sze
- Prof Bill Toff
- Prof Tom Yates
- Dr Mustafa Zakkar
- Prof Huiyu Zhou
Populations
- Dr Samuel Cai
- Dr Safoora Gharibzadeh
- Dr Clare Gillies
- Prof Laura Gray
- Prof Anna Hansell
- Dr Calvin Jephcote
- Prof Kamlesh Khunti
- Prof Paul Lambert
- Dr Claire Lawson
- Dr Cameron Razieh
- Dr Alex Rowlands
- Prof Samuel Seidu
- Dr Francesco Zaccardi
Funded research fellows
- Dr Ellen Liggett, Research Associate in Cardiovascular Interventions
- Dr Ahmed Salih, Senior Research Associate in Cardiovascular Interventions
- Dr Fiona Newberry, Research Associate in Cardiovascular Genomics
- Dr David McVey, Senior Research Associate in Cardiovascular Genomics
- Dr Charles Solomon, Research Associate in Cardiovascular Genomics
- Joanne Miksza, Research Associate in Epidemiology
- Dr Simon Hand, Research Associate in Epidemiology
- Dr Josephine Baafi, Research Assistant in Epidemiology
- Dr Alessandro Rizzi, Research Associate in Epidemiology