The Oxford BRC’s Theme Lead for Cardiovascular Medicine, Professor Barbara Casadei, has been awarded the annual Louis and Artur Lucian Award for outstanding research in the field of circulatory diseases.
The award winner receives a prize of 75,000 Canadian dollars and is invited for a formal Lucian Lecture and a visit at McGill University.
Amongst the award’s aims is to encourage collaborative research in the field between McGill and research centres elsewhere in the world.
Professor Casadei (pictured), who will receive her award next month, is BHF Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Oxford’s Radcliffe Department of Medicine and President of the European Society of Cardiology.