Research Focus
The Molecular Biology Laboratory is investigating genetic variants that affect an individual’s susceptibility to the development and progression of coronary heart disease and heart failure.
The laboratory is also investigating how genes influence the underlying pathology of heart disease in mouse models of heart disease.
Staff
Head of Division
- Vicky Cameron
(Translational cardiovascular genetics and genomics)
Cardiovascular genomics discovery
- Anna Pilbrow
HRC Hercus Research Fellow (Cardiovascular genomics discovery) - Ayla van Loenen
Research Assistant - Nicole Wheeler
Research Assistant
Gene expression in models of cardiac remodelling
- Leigh Ellmers
Senior Research Fellow (Gene expression in models of cardiac remodelling) - Nicola Scott
Research Fellow (Generating a mouse model of the metabolic syndrome)
Research Staff
- Barry Palmer
Senior Research Fellow (Genetic polymorphisms, clinical outcome and initial risk in cardiovascular disease) - Judith Thomson
Study Co-ordinator (Genetic Profiles of Healthy Volunteers and the Christchurch Family Heart Study) - Allamanda Faatoese
Junior Research Fellow (Screening for Cardiovascular Disease: A Comparison of Māori and non-Māori Risk Profiles) - Melinda Paterson
Research Assistant (Christchurch Family Heart Study)
