Shoumo Bhattacharya is an Indian medical doctor and academic, and the British Heart Foundation (BHF) Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the BHF Centre of Research Excellence,

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Education and career

Bhattacharya studied medicine at the

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, qualifying as MBBS 1983, and MD in 1985. He trained in cardiology at Northwick Park and Hammersmith Hospitals in London, where he was also a Medical Research Council (MRC) Training Fellow. He then held BHF and

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(NIH) Fellowships at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Bhattacharya was a

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Senior Fellow at Oxford from 1998 to 2008. He was awarded a BHF Professorship in 2009 and was elected to a statutory Professorship at the University of Oxford in 2010. Bhattacharya is also a Governing Body Fellow of Green Templeton College and member of the College Council.

Research interests

Bhattacharya's research focuses on genetic mechanisms in heart development and congenital heart disease, and developing novel therapeutics and targets. This includes research on how proteins in the saliva of ticks might be able to prevent myocarditis. His work has also investigated which genes are critical for the heart to develop normally and maintain healthy function in adulthood, using genetic techniques and state-of the art imaging technology to study how alterations in these genes affect the structure of the heart and lead to congenital heart anomalies or heart failure. He has also been investigating how environmental factors act together with gene variations to influence the development of heart conditions, for example studying how a mother's diet may affect the chances of congenital heart disease in the baby, and how stress (such as high blood pressure) interacts with gene variations to cause heart failure.

Recognition

Bhattacharya was elected a Fellow of the

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in 2003 and was awarded th
Graham Bull Prize
from the Royal College of Physicians in 2005. He was elected a Fellow of the

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in 2006.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bhattacharya, Shoumo Living people Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom) All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi alumni Fellows of Green Templeton College, Oxford Year of birth missing (living people)