Awards and Achievements:
Academic awards include the inaugural Bernard and Joan Marshall Young Investigator Prize from the British Society for Cardiovascular Research (2010), British Cardiovascular Society Young Investigator Competition Winner (Basic Sciences) (2009), Royal Society of Medicine Cardiology Section President’s Medal Winner (2007), Medical Research Society Raftery Prize in Cardiovascular Sciences Winner (2008), European Meeting of International Society of Heart Research Best Scientific Poster Prize (2008). He has presented at numerous national and international meetings in the field of cardiac calcium pathophysiology and gene therapy in heart failure, cardio-oncology and chemotherapy cardiomyopathy, mitochondrial function in heart failure, and Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy.

He has raised over £5million in scientifc research funding and published research papers in the myocardial biology of heart failure relating to his research interests.

His first two PhD students were awarded their theses in 2011/12, and he is currently the supervisor for nine Imperial College PhD students.