Research Department of Children’s Cardiovascular Disease
Our research drives innovation in the diagnosis, treatment, and care of children with cardiovascular conditions.
Leading paediatric cardiovascular research
The Department of Children’s Cardiovascular Disease at ICS is one of the largest paediatric cardiovascular research groups in the world.
Our mission is to improve the lives of children with heart disease through patient-centred research with demonstrable clinical outcomes.
Our focus areas are:
- Use of big data for precision, predictive & personalised medicine (using clinical data, genomics, metabolomics, radiomics and outcomes)
- Advanced imaging
- Cardiac transplantation
- Cardiovascular engineering & modelling
- Inherited cardiovascular disease
- Patient communication
- Pulmonary hypertension.
Head of Department: Professor Vivek Muthurangu
Deputy Head of Department: Professor Katherine Brown
Department Manager: Mr Steven Kimberley
Research Centres
- Clinical Cardiovascular Engineering
- Heart Failure, Transplantation and Extracorporeal Support
- Morphology and Structural Heart Disease
- Outcomes in Paediatric Critical Illness and CV Disease
- Paediatric Inherited and Rare Cardiovascular Disease
- Translational Cardiovascular Imaging