Shoumo Bhattacharya MA MD MSc FRCP FMedScibhattacharya-

British Heart Foundation Chair of Cardiovascular Medicine

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shoumo Bhattacharya read Medicine at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences New Delhi, qualifying MBBS 1983, and MD 1985. Following clinical training in Cardiology at Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow, he joined James Scott’s group at the Clinical Research Centre, Harrow as a MRC Training Fellow in 1990. With fellowships from the BHF and then the NIH, he joined David Livingston’s group at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/ Harvard Medical School in 1994. He moved to Oxford in 1998 as a Wellcome Senior Fellow in Clinical Science and Honorary Consultant Cardiologist. He was elected Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 2003, Fellow of Green Templeton College in 2004, awarded the Graham Bull Prize from the Royal College of Physicians in 2005, and elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2006. He was appointed to a British Heart Foundation Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine in 2009.

Key Reviews

1. Schneider, J. & Bhattacharya, S. Making the mouse embryo transparent:  Identifying developmental malformations using magnetic resonance imaging. Birth Defects Research (Part C) 72:241–249 (2004).

2. Bhattacharya, S., MacDonald S.T. & Farthing, C. Molecular mechanisms controlling the coupled development of myocardium and coronary vasculature. Clin Sci (Lond) 111: 35-46 (2006).

3. Bentham, J. & Bhattacharya S. Genetic Mechanisms Controlling Cardiovascular Development. Ann NY Acad Sci 1123:10-19 (2008).

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