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Professor Hugh Watkins

University of Oxford, Oxford (United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland)

Hugh Watkins is Radcliffe Professor of Medicine at the University of Oxford, and Honorary Consultant in Cardiology at the John Radcliffe Hospital. He has been the Director of the British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence at Oxford since its inception in 2008. Professor Watkins researches the molecular genetic basis of cardiovascular disease in order to define disease mechanisms and to improve diagnosis and treatment of patients and families with inherited diseases. He works on both rare inherited diseases, in particular cardiomyopathy, where genetic advances now underpin diagnosis and new approaches to therapy, and common diseases such as Coronary Artery Disease. In 2017 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is also a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and an NIHR Senior Investigator. From 2022 he has lead an international programme which aims to create genetic cures for cardiomyopathies, CureHeart, winner of the BHF's Big Beat Challenge.

Novel risk predictors in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Event: ESC Congress 2024

Topic: Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Session type: Abstract Sessions

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ESC William Harvey Lecture in Basic Science

Event: ESC Congress 2024

Topic: Basic Science

Session type: Special Session

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Novel therapies for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: recent developments and future prospects

Event: ESC Congress 2024

Topic: Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Session type: Advances in Science

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Meet the Gold Medalist - Christine Seidman

Event: ESC Congress 2019

Topic: European Society of Cardiology, Other

Session type: Interview

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ESC William Harvey Lecture on Basic Science

Event: ESC Congress 2019

Topic: Basic Science

Session type: Special Session

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