- Theme Lead
- Professor Nick Morrell, email nwm23@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Other Key Contacts
- Professor Martin Bennett, email mrb24@medschl.cam.ac.uk
- Professor Morris Brown, email mjb14@medschl.cam.ac.uk
- Dr Joseph Cheriyan, email jc403@cam.ac.uk
- Professor John Danesh, email hs428@medschl.cam.ac.uk
- Dr David Dutka
- Professor Willem Ouwehand, email df296@cam.ac.uk
- Dr James Rudd, email cju22@medschl.cam.ac.uk
- Dr Sanjay Sinha, email ss661@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk
- Dr Ian Wilkinson
- Dr Kevin O'Shaughnessey
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Highlights
Vulnerable Plaque Imaging
The cardiovascular PET programme examines non-invasive measurement of inflammation, hypoxia and other markers of high-risk atherosclerotic plaque disease. The BRC has funded a trainee vascular surgeon who is supervising 2 ongoing translational research studies. One prospective study is investigating the determinants of aortic aneurysm expansion over a 3-year period, hypothesising that inflammation, hypoxia or neovascularisation detected by PET/CT or MRI at baseline is predictive of future aneurysm expansion.
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