Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease

Cardiovascular diseases are the most common cause of death in western industrial nations. Major risk factors are high blood pressure, diabetes, raised blood lipid levels, smoking and obesity, which are a tremendous burden on the public health system. To achieve a sustainable long-term drop in numbers of cases, scientists study the causes of vascular disease, high blood pressure, heart and kidney disease and metabolic diseases such as diabetes and adiposity.

In addition, they develop new ways of preventing, diagnosing and treating such illnesses, drawing on various methodological approaches based on genetics, genomics, bioinformatics, cell biology and epidemiology.