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Our approach
Our targeted career development initiatives support REACT staff and students in becoming skilled, confident researchers who will shape the field of advanced cardiac therapies for decades to come. Through team science and collaboration, and by fostering an …
Greg Palmer
Greg leads patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) and digital communications efforts for the MRC/BHF CoRE in Advanced Cardiac Therapies (REACT). He is based at the University of Edinburgh but supports work across all our partner …
Symposium
Our first annual symposium brought members of the MRC/BHF CoRE in Advanced Cardiac Therapies together in person, in London, and online, in March …
Culture and inclusion
Our unique position across three world-class institutions allows us to tap into distinct institutional strengths and practices in research culture – sharing, combining and amplifying them within REACT. To build and sustain a positive research culture we …
Dr Nicola Haines
As REACT COO Nicola works to ensure that we have the strategic and operational capacity to allow the science to run smoothly while maximising the opportunities to reach our goals and deliver impact on behalf of our funders, partners and publics. In REACT, …
Professor Daniel Stuckey
Daniel is Professor of Cardiovascular Imaging at University College London. For over 20 years his team have been developing in vivo imaging technology bespoke to cardiac regenerative therapies. Through successive BHF Fellowships, his team have established …
Dr Hanna Groothuizen
Hanna is REACT’s Research Culture Manager, working to help build a research culture that enables us to achieve our scientific goals. We know that healthy cultures foster innovation, retention and research integrity, whereas unhealthy ones do the opposite. …
Dr Christopher Toepfer
Chris is Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Science at the University of Oxford and Co-director of the Oxford Organoid Hub. His group is interested in understanding changes in cellular function that are driven by acquired and inherited …