Speakers

Marta Futema is Lecturer in Cardiovascular Science at the Cardiology Research Centre at St George’s, University of London. Her research overarches genetics, bioinformatics and functional genomics approaches to understand causes of inherited cardiovascular diseases. She has a strong focus on genetic aetiology of Familial Hypercholesterolaemia (FH), from rare variants to polygenic risk scores. Her work has had an impact on the UK clinical guidelines on FH, the NICE Guidelines. 

Dr Futema qualified in Medical Biotechnology from University of East London, followed by PhD in Cardiovascular Genetics from UCL Genetics Institute, University College London. She held two postdoctoral positions at UCL before taking up the independent research post at St George’s, in 2021. She remains as an honorary Senior Research Fellow at UCL. 

Marta contributes to postgraduate teaching at St George’s, UCL and Queen Mary University of London, which includes supervision of PhD students. She is the module leader for Cardiovascular Genetics and Genomics (MSc Genomic Medicine (SGUL-KCL)).