Charis Antoniades is a Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Consultant Cardiologist, at the University of Oxford. He is the Director of Oxford's Acute Vascular Imaging Centre, the Deputy Head of the Division of Cardivascular Medicine and the lead lead of Academic Cardiovascular CT programme. His research is focused on the interatcion between the human adipsoe tissue and the cardiovascular system, and spans from basic science all the way to large multicentre outcomes trials. He directs the Oxford Heart Vessels and Fat (oxHVF) programme, that uses artificaial intelligence to build novel radiotranscriptomic phenotyping methods for cardiovascular diseases.
Prof Antoniades has received multiple international awards, including the Outstanding Achievement Award of the basic Cardiovascular Science Council of the ESC and has given various prestigious named lectures. He is deputy Editor of Cardiovascular Research and the current Chair of the British Atherosclerosis Society.
