Our students, in their words – find out what it's like studying at the Institute of Cardiovascular Science
Research Students on British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Bioemedicine programme
Annalisa Bettini
PhD Project Title: Redefining iPSC-Derived Cardiomyocyte Delivery using a Pro-Survival Substrate
Supervisors: Professor Richard Day
Kaloyan Takov
PhD Project Title: Cardioprotective and proangiogenic activity of stem cell-derived small extracellular vesicles
Supervisors: Prof Sean Davidson and Prof Derek Yellon
Benjamin Ringham-Terry
PhD Project Title: PhD Cardiovascular Biomedicine
Project title 1: The role of BCAR1/p130Cas in angiogenesis.
Project title 2: Role of SHOC2 complex in RAS-ERK pathway dynamics in cardiomyocytes.
Supervisors: Dr Paul Frankel, Dr Pablo Rodriguez-Viciana, Dr Sean Davidson (rotation supervisors)
Albert Henry
PhD Project Title: Discovery and validation of therapeutic targets for heart failure using expression and protein quantitative trait loci in Mendelian randomisation framework
Supervisors: Dr Tom Lumbers
Roshni Joshi
PhD Project Title: Triglycerides, triglyceride containing lipoproteins and cardiovascular disease: causal relevance and potential therapeutic targets.
Supervisors: Professor Aroon Hingorani
Vanessa Acquaah
PhD Project Title: Rotation Year
Supervisors: Professor Alun Hughes