Research Interests
Open to PhD applications in the field of
- Heart failure, Cardiomyopathy, Cardiac remodelling
- Diabetes, Hypertension, Ischaemia
- Biomarkers, Epigenetics, Fibrosis
- Global Health, mHealth
Current Research Opportunities
- Epigenetics in heart failure: mechanism and therapeutic targeting
- Epigenetics in heart failure: mechanism and therapeutic targeting
Public outreach & key achievements
- International Director of Mzuzu-gHealth Clinical Research & Education Centre, Malawi
- Director and co-founder, QUB spin-out company: miCARE Technologies Ltd. [My Integrated CARE for real-time, remote monitoring and biomarker risk-stratification for chronic diseases].
- UCD 2016 Start-Up of the Year Award, co-founder, EpiCor Therapeutics - new drug for heart disease
- Pioneering research into heart failure
- New blood test could detect heart disease
- Study shows new biomarker could predict which pregnant women with type 1 diabetes could develop pre-eclampsia
Research students
| PhD Title | Heart failure prevention: Investigating the use of known and novel biomarkers in heart failure prediction, disease stratification and monitoring response to therapeutic interventions |
| Country | Northern Ireland |
| PhD Title | The role of pathological structural changes in cardiovascular outcomes of patients undergoing cardiac biopsy or cancer therapies |
| Country | USA |
| PhD Title | Discovery of novel small RNAs from RNA-Seq Data |
| Country | Scotland |
Alumni: Where are they now
| PhD Title | Assessing the therapeutic potential of DNA methylation inhibitors for the treatment of pulmonary and cardiac fibrosis and remodelling |
| Country | Ireland |
| Current Position | Corporate Affairs Executive at Royal College of Physicians of Ireland |