BHF CRE & Cambridge Cardiovascular Annual Research Symposium

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Our 2026 symposium was held at Robinson College Cambridge on 30 April. This annual event is open to all members of our network.

Our next symposium will be held on Tuesday 23 March 2027.

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SPEAKER DETAILS

Programme

Martin Bennett

Foreward - Prof Martin Bennett, BHF CRE Director 

I’d like to welcome you to the second annual meeting of the renewed British Heart Foundation Cambridge Centre for Cardiovascular Research Excellence. We are proud of the breadth and depth of our cardiovascular research and that of our scientific staff. The Centre has, and you will hear from, statisticians, data scientists, epidemiologists, wet lab scientists, clinical trialists, cardiologists, engineers to name but a few, with disease areas covering coronary artery disease, stroke, cardiometabolic disease, aneurysms, cardiac regeneration and heart failure. We have also scheduled important talks that are relevant to us all, covering generation and protection of intellectual property, patient and public involvement and engagement, and the fellowship schemes available through the BHF.

Many of you will know about the Centre through our seminar programme, our short term fellowships to bridge people to the next external fellowship, and our pump priming awards designed to get pilot data for substantive applications. However, you may not be aware of our range of education, public engagement, and outreach programmes. These events are important to communicate our research to the wider public, and to support the BHF. I recommend these events to you all – they are highly educational and really good fun.

This year’s symposium showcases some of our PhD students, new and established Fellows, and some of our senior investigators from all of our five themes. I hope there is something for everyone in our programme. We are also delighted to welcome our distinguished lecturers, major representation from the BHF and our international scientific advisory board, Professors Sarah Lewington from Oxford, William Whiteley from Edinburgh, Stefan Janssens from Leuven, and Muredach Reilly from New York.

Finally, I would like to thank Jane Sugars our Centre Manager and Sarah Gibbings our Cambridge Cardiovascular Coordinator, who have worked tirelessly to manage everyone and everything involved and everyone who helped organise, chair sessions, judge abstracts, give talks and present posters – you are all critical to the Centre’s success.

I hope you enjoy our 2026 annual symposium. 

Martin Bennett  

Director, Cambridge British Heart Foundation Centre for Cardiovascular Research Excellence