Challenge and Innovation in Cardiovascular
Therapeutics: 1st Annual BHF Centre Symposium
Michael D. Schneider MD FMedSci
Head, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London
Director, British Heart Foundation Centre for Research Excellence
Simon Marks BHF Chair in Regenerative Cardiology
www.imperial.ac.uk/bhfcre
BHF Centre for Research Excellence at Imperial
BHF Centre - Research Teams
Biomedical Sciences
Physical and Computational Sciences
Stem Cell & Developmental Biology
Physiological & Pathological Fluid-Tissue
Interactions
Regenerative Medicine & Tissue Engineering
Vascular Biology, Thrombosis & Inflammation
Arterial Pulse Wave Analysis for Clinical
Diagnosis
Pulmonary Vascular Disease: Bench to Bedside
and Back
Robotics & Minimially Invasive Surgery
Electrophysiology & Membrane Biophysics
Bioprocessing & Biomechanics for Tissue
Engineering
Signal Transduction & Gene Expression
Biology of the Failing Heart
Chemical Biology: Protein-Protein & Protein-Lipid
Interactions
Cardiac Imaging
Chemical Biology: Single-cell Proteomics
Applied Physiology & Bioengineering: Clinical
Implementation
Chemical Biology: Chemical Genetics
Cardiovascular Epidemiology & Clinical Trials
Multi-scale Modeling of Bio-systems
Genetics, Genomics, & Physiology
Systems Biology
11 Life Science teams x 9 Physical Science teams
= 99 pairwise combinations
Components of Imperial’s BHF Centre
• New four-year MRes / PhD programme, bespoke
curriculum, cross-disciplinary design, dual mentoring
• Physician-scientist support
• 7 flagship postdoctoral projects in the Directors’ labs
• Pump-priming pilot project support
• Core support posts for animal microsurgery & bioinformatics
• Core facilities for transgenesis, knockouts
• Visiting professors — Jason Yuan (‘08), Eric Olson (‘09)
• Seminar series, specialized workshops
– Advanced Optical Methods in Cardiovascular Research
• BHF Centre as a platform to other funding (e.g. RBHT BRU)
• Annual Symposium
A vigorous recruitment programme
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Chair in Developmental Dynamics (offered)
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Chair in Cardiovascular Genetics (offered)
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Chair in Cardiovascular Genomics and Systems Biology
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Chair in Cardiac Surgery
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Chair in Cardiovascular Stem Cell Biology and
Regenerative Medicine
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Lecturer in Vascular Inflammation
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Clinical trialists in heart failure and acute ischemic injury
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Many other posts, awaiting new space…
Hammersmith campus development
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New L Block (£99M), due Xmas 2011
3 cardiovascular floors, 60,000 sq ft, 250-300 researchers
Adjacent to MRC CSC and WT Clinical Research Facility
Large-mammal cath lab (BHF) & imaging suite, April 2010
A few housekeeping details