BHF Research Accelerator Award

April 2020

• Director of the Accelerator Award: Professor Steve Watson
• Chair: Professor Andy Clark
• Voting members: 
  • Professor Ed Rainger, Deputy Director of the Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, Director of Research
  • Professor Larissa Fabritz, Honorary Professor
  • Professor Claudio Mauro, Professorial Research Fellow in Metabolism and Inflammation
  • Professor Neil Morgan, Professor of Cardiovascular Genetics
  • Professor Iain Styles, Turing University Lead and Director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Data Science
  • Dr Katja Gehmlich, Associate Professor
  • Dr Mark Thomas, Academic Clinical Lecturer
  • Dr Asif Iqbal, Associate Professor in Inflammation Biology and Birmingham Fellow

April 2019 - March 2020

• Professor Roy Bicknell, Director of the Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences

• Professor Larissa Fabritz, Honorary Professor

• Dr Katja Gehmlich, Associate Professor

• Dr Kayleigh Griffiths, Postdoctoral Researcher

• Professor Paulus Kirchhof, Honorary Professor

• Professor Ed Rainger, Professor of Chronic Inflammation

• Laura Sommerfeld, PhD Student

• Dr Mark Thomas, NIHR Clinical Lecturer 

• Professor Steve Watson, BHF Professor in Cardiovascular Sciences and Cellular Pharmacology

  

This award would not be possible without the support and collaboration of our partners, all of which we have built strong working relationships and together enhance the quality of research produced: 

This award offers the opportunity to fund a number of new positions to integrate research excellence, including new research nurse capacity in local hospitals, data scientists working within the Midlands Health Data Research UK (HDR-UK) and fundamental researchers embedded into the Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and the Centre of Membrane Proteins and Receptors (COMPARE).

Below are the current opportunities available along with the links to the official application page:

There are no vacancies at this time, please periodically check this page as it is constantly updated.

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The Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences hosted an opening event to celebrate the outstanding research that secured the BHF Accelerator Award. The event took place on Monday 28th October 2019. Highlights from the event can be found on the Institute twitter account and an article has been written with all the details from the afternoon, read more.

BHF Accelerator Award Opening Event Brochure

Dretzke J, Chuchu N, Agarwal R, Herd C, Chua W, Fabritz L, Bayliss S, Kotecha D, Deeks JJ, Kirchhof P, Takwoingi Y. Predicting recurrent atrial fibrillation after catheter ablation: a systematic review of prognostic models Europace. 2020 Mar 30. pii: euaa041. doi: 10.1093/europace/euaa041. [Epub ahead of print]

Law JP, Price AM, Pickup L, Radhakrishnan A, Weston C, Jones AM, McGettrick HM, Chua W, Steeds RP, Fabritz L, Kirchhof P, Pavlovic D, Townend JN, Ferro CJ. Clinical Potential of Targeting Fibroblast Growth Factor-23 and αKlotho in the Treatment of Uremic Cardiomyopathy J Am Heart Assoc. 2020 Apr 7;9(7):e016041. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.120.016041. Epub 2020 Mar 26.

Kloosterman M, Chua W, Fabritz L, Al-Khalidi HR, Schotten U, Nielsen JC, Piccini JP, Di Biase L, Häusler KG, Todd D, Mont L, Van Gelder IC, Kirchhof P. Sex differences in catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation: results from AXAFA-AFNET 5. Europace. 2020 Mar 6. pii: euaa015. doi: 10.1093/europace/euaa015. [Epub ahead of print]

O'Shea C, Winter J, Holmes AP, Johnson DM, Correia JN, Kirchhof P, Fabritz L, Rajpoot K, Pavlovic D. Temporal irregularity quantification and mapping of optical action potentials using wave morphology similarity Prog Biophys Mol Biol. 2019 Dec 30. pii: S0079-6107(19)30213-5. doi: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2019.12.004. [Epub ahead of print]

Bunting KV, Steeds RP, Slater LT, Rogers JK, Gkoutos GV, Kotecha D. A Practical Guide to Assess the Reproducibility of Echocardiographic Measurements. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2019 Dec;32(12):1505-1515. doi: 10.1016/j.echo.2019.08.015. Epub  2019 Oct 22.

Hendriks JML, Fabritz L. AI can now identify atrial fibrillation through sinus rhythm. Lancet. 2019 Aug 1. pii: S0140-6736(19)31719-2. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(19)31719-2. [Epub ahead of print]