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    Dr Chris Watson

    School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

    Dr Chris Watson

    School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

    Dr Watson’s research programme at QUB is primarily focused on investigating the impact that cardiovascular risk factors such as diabetes, hypertension, and inflammation have on cardiovascular remodelling, cardiac fibrosis, and heart failure.

    This research is very translational and spans mechanistic work (fibrosis, hypertrophy, and epigenetics) right through to biomarker discovery programmes, clinical trials, and health services research.  These research activities also span into low and middle income countries, particularly sub-Saharan Africa, through a Global Health (gHealth) Research consortium that Dr Watson has developed.

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    • askmhls@qub.ac.uk
    • +44 (0)28 9097 6478

    Research Interests

    Open to PhD applications in the field of

    • Heart failure, Cardiomyopathy, Cardiac remodelling
    • Diabetes, Hypertension, Ischaemia
    • Biomarkers, Epigenetics, Fibrosis
    • Global Health, mHealth

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    Current Research Opportunities

    • Epigenetics in heart failure: mechanism and therapeutic targeting
    • Epigenetics in heart failure: mechanism and therapeutic targeting

    Public outreach & key achievements

    • International Director of Mzuzu-gHealth Clinical Research & Education Centre, Malawi
    • Director and co-founder, QUB spin-out company:  miCARE Technologies Ltd. [My Integrated CARE for real-time, remote monitoring and biomarker risk-stratification for chronic diseases].
    • UCD 2016 Start-Up of the Year Award, co-founder, EpiCor Therapeutics - new drug for heart disease
    • Pioneering research into heart failure
    • New blood test could detect heart disease

     


    Research students

    PhD Title Heart failure prevention: Investigating the use of known and novel biomarkers in heart failure prediction, disease stratification and monitoring response to therapeutic interventions
    Country Northern Ireland
       
    PhD Title  The role of pathological structural changes in cardiovascular outcomes of patients undergoing cardiac biopsy or cancer therapies
    Country  USA
       
    PhD Title  Discovery of novel small RNAs from RNA-Seq Data
    Country  Scotland

     


    Alumni: Where are they now

    PhD Title Assessing the therapeutic potential of DNA methylation inhibitors for the treatment of pulmonary and cardiac fibrosis and remodelling
    Country Ireland
    Current Position  Corporate Affairs Executive at Royal College of Physicians of Ireland
       

     

     


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