Vascular Biology Section

Head of Section, Professor Iain Greenwood

The Vascular Biology research section is a multidisciplinary research operation that brings together experts in blood vessel pharmacology, platelet biology, and cellular mechanisms that underpin heart and vessel diseases.

Our researchers are currently working on:

• Investigating physiological, pathological, and pharmacological regulation of receptors, signalling pathways and ion channels in cardiovascular cells as well as visceral organs
• Understanding mechanisms of haemostasis and thrombosis, in particular platelet function and interactions with immune and endothelial cells; cell signalling
• Exploring cellular crosstalk in cardiac and vessel diseases, with a focus on endothelial-dependent regulation of tissue remodelling
• Defining novel regulators of stress-regulated signalling for adaptive and maladaptive tissue remodelling with cardiac and vascular diseases
• Defining the interaction of cells at the maternal fetal interface in normal pregnancies and those pregnancies complicated by pre-eclampsia.