Research will be undertaken in state-of-the-art laboratories at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, the West Wing of the John Radcliffe Hospital site, the Cardiovascular Clinical Research Facility (CCRF), or in the Oxford Centre for Clinical Magnetic Resonance Research (OCMR).
The University's department of Cardiovascular Medicine is one of five units comprising the Radcliffe Department of Medicine. The department also has close links with the NHS Cardiac Clinical Centre, providing access to patients and resources appropriate to all areas of clinical cardiovascular investigation. Close links are also maintained with the Clinical Trials Service unit, which continues to provide first-class expertise in clinical epidemiology.
An award was made to the University by the British Heart Foundation in order to establish a Centre of Research Excellence (CRE) to enable further research into cardiovascular disease; the BHF CRE brings together thirty-six world-leading clinical and laboratory researchers, based in ten University departments and centres.
Professor Hugh Watkins, Head of the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, is Director of this CRE, and some of the CRE funding is deployed to support DPhil students.
