Victoria Heath is a Senior Lecturer in Molecular Biology in the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences at the University of Birmingham. She did her undergraduate studies in Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge, followed by a DPhil in the MRC Cellular Immunology Unit in the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at Oxford University. She then did post-doctoral work at both DNAX Research Institute in Palo Alto, California, working on cell signalling in T helper cell differentiation and at Stanford University on calcium signalling in budding yeast.
She returned to the UK and worked as a Beit Memorial Fellow in the School of Biosciences at the University of Birmingham studying phosphoinositide signalling joining the Molecular Angiogenesis group as a Lecturer in 2006. Since then, her work is focused on identifying the roles of various endothelial expressed signalling molecules in endothelial cell biology and in the development of new blood vessels. She has received funding from the British Heart Foundation and Medical Research Council and trained a number of PhD students in this field.
She is interested in developing education within the University of Birmingham and has set up and developed number of modules on a range of programmes including the Biomedical Sciences BSc, the intercalated Clinical Science BMedSc degree and as part of the Birmingham Foundation Academy.