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Using our genes to treat cardiovascular disease - public seminar

12 January 2015

The BRC Cardiometabolic programme is holding a seminar for patients and the public on using our genes to treat or prevent cardiovascular disease.

 

There will be talks from leading researchers Professor Aroon Hingorani, Dr Folkert Asselbergs and Dr Dan Swerdlow. There will be an opportunity for questions after each presentation and active audience participation is encouraged.

This free event will be held at the Hatter Cardiovascular Institute where refreshments will be provided.

Places are very limited, to register contact Sara Giesz s.giesz@ucl.ac.uk

When and where?

1-3pm, Tuesday 20 January 2015

The Hatter Cardiovascular Institute

67 Chenies Mews

London WC1E 6HX

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AGENDA

1:30 Welcome and Introductions

1:35 Professor Aroon Hingorani - Back to basics: an introduction to genetics

2:00 Dr Folkert Asselbergs - Back to the future: personalized medicine, myth or reality?

2:30 Dr Dan Swerdlow - Back to nature: Mendelian randomization, nature's lifelong clinical trials

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