Professor Figtree and her team have developed a platform to discover and validate blood markers that will significantly improve heart attack risk prediction. This takes us closer to a simple blood test that could identify heart attack risk 10-15 years before someone experiences one.

Dr Staub and Professor Kluckow are investigating hypertension and problems associated with blood vessels in babies currently being born pre-term, to try to understand what is causing these teens and young adults born prematurely to suffer these cardiac risk factors at such a younger age than those born at term.