Our network is a multidisciplinary team of scientists and clinicians.
We work together to understand and tackle cardiovascular and metabolic disease, including heart disease, diabetes, stroke and vascular dementia.
We benefit from expertise across the Norwich Medical School and Faculty of Science at the University of East Anglia and the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital.
Our mission is to understand how and why cardiovascular and metabolic diseases occur, develop new therapies and diagnostics for the treatment of disease and improve clinical practice.
We achieve this through collaboration with industry and healthcare networks. Major funders of research within the network include UKRI, British Heart Foundation and the Wellcome Trust.
"This forum will enable the collaborative environment needed to help develop ideas and therapies, so we can actually translate these for the benefit of patients and their families."
Dr Amer Rana
Research Half Day - Registration open
Registration is now open for our research half day which takes place on Wednesday 8 November 2023 from 14:00 in the Julian Study Centre. This event will include talks from a variety of speakers across Norwich Research Park, followed by refreshments.
| PROGRAMME | ||
| 14:00 – 14:05 | Professor Samuel Fountain | Welcome and Overview |
| Session One | ||
| 14:05 – 14:25 | Professor Vassilios Vassiliou Clinical Professor of Cardiac Medicine (MED) | Seeing the aortic valve through the years |
| 14:25 – 14:45 | Dr Stephen Robinson Group Leader – Quadram Institute (QI) | Cell adhesion receptors in angiogenesis |
| 14:45 – 15:05 | Dr James Smith Lecturer – Cardiovascular Stem Cells (MED) | Using induced pluripotent stem cell derived cardiomyocytes to study heart disease |
| 15:05 – 15:30 | Coffee Break | |
| Session Two | ||
| 15:30 – 15:50 | Professor Samuel Fountain Professor of Pharmacology (BIO) | Targeting neurotransmitters and fluid flow responses in cardiovascular drug development |
| 15:50 – 16:10 | Dr Pankaj Garg Clinical Associate Professor in Cardiovascular Medicine (MED) | 4D LAB - Cardiovascular imaging in heart disease |
| 16:10 – 16:30 | Dr Amer Rana Associate Professor in Biomedicine (BIO) | Translating developmental and stem cell biology to define new insights and treatments in cardiovascular and cardiopulmonary |
| 16:30 – 16:50 | Professor Andrea Münsterberg Professor of Developmental Biology (BIO) | Investigating cardiac development in chick embryos |
| 16:50 – 17:00 | Closing Remarks | |
| 17:00 – 18:00 | Refreshments | |
2023/2024 Seminar Series
More information on this seminar series is coming soon!
Hear from some of our researchers
Professor Samuel Fountain, School of Biological Sciences
Professor Andrea Munsterberg, School of Biological Sciences
Dr James Smith, Lecturer, Norwich Medical School
Professor Helen Murphy, Norwich Medical School
Dr Stephen Robinson, Research Leader, Quadram Institute
Dr Amer Rana, School of Biological Science
