Multidisciplinary Cardiovascular Research Centre

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John Greenwood and Sven Plein have shown that magnetic resonance imaging is superior to SPECT for diagnosing coronary heart disease (Lancet, 2012). With colleagues they have been awarded ~£1.2M by the British Heart Foundation for CE MARC 2, a UK multi-centre randomised controlled trial of 3T CMR vs. current UK NICE guidelines for the management of patients with suspected IHD.

John Fisher and Eileen Ingham have been rewarded with a 2012 Queen's Anniversary Prize, which is the UK's highest accolade for an academic institution. More information

Professor Eileen Ingham has won a prestigious award for her achievements in scientific research. The Women of Outstanding Achievement Awards recognise the diverse contributions of women as leaders, innovators and role models.More information

Julian Scott has been elected as President of the Vascular Society of GB and Ireland for 2012-13. More information

Peter Grant has been elected to serve for 4 years (2010-) as the co-chair of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes task force to update guidelines on diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

See the Circulation Spotlight on Tony Turner's ACE2 discoveries: More information

Grants Helen Philippou, Richard Foster, Colin Fishwick and Robert Ariens have been awarded ~£0.81M by the Medical Research Council for development of a novel oral anticoagulant. Derek Steele, Sarah Calaghan and Chris Peers have been awarded a programme grant of ~£0.56M by the British Heart Foundation for studies of the role of abnormal local calcium signalling in myocardial dysfunction induced by sustained beta1 adrenergic activation or phosphodiesterase inhibition. David Beech, Karen Porter, Mark Kearney, Justin Ainscough, Ian Wood, David Jayne, Martin Main (AZ) have been awarded ~£0.72M by the Medical Research Council for studies of the functions and therapeutic potential of vascular Orai channels. Rainer Boger (Frankfurt), Peter Grant (Leeds), Niko Marx (Aachen), Bart Staels (Lille), Massimo Federici (Milan) have been awarded ~£5.7M by EU Framework 7 for a study of chronotherapeutic lifestyle intervention for diabetes and obesity.

Example press releases 1. a toxin from a Central American bark scorpion could hold the key to reducing heart bypass failures (read the press release here). 2. a new cardiac diagnostic test here. 3. C-peptide protection against damaging effects of insulin here. 4. Fountain of youth steroids here.

Prize winners Adil Rajwani won the Young Research Workers' Prize at the Annual British Cardiovascular Society Conference. Tawqeer Rashid won first prize in the 'Surgeons in Training' session at the recent 32nd Charing Cross International Symposium. Matthew Kahn was awarded the British Atherosclerosis Society's 2009 Michael Davies Young Investigator Award for his work on endothelial repair under the supervision of Stephen Wheatcroft and Mark Kearney. Reena Aggarwal was awarded the British Journal of Surgery prize for best scientific paper at the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland in November 2009 for her work with Ramzi Ajjan and Julian Scott on clot structure in patients with abdominal aortic aneurysm. Robert Ariens won the Raymond Limet prize at the 2nd International Meeting on Aortic Disease. At the same meeting, Marc Bailey won the ING prize.

Iain Kennedy and Tim Angelini were awarded intercalated BSc grants from the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

XXIInd International Fibrinogen Workshop Three day event beginning 4th July. More information

Funds have been awarded for a Leeds University-China Cardiovascular Initiative (LUCCI) to include a symposium in Beijing and visits by China research students to Leeds. (2011) More information

Meeting report on Cardiovascular Remodelling 2010, Mexico (see p 20-23). More information