Speakers

Professor Rameen Shakur MPhil MD PhD (Cantab)  FRSB FIBMS FRSPH FRSA

Professor Rameen Shakur is the Professor of Genomics and Precision Cardiovascular Medicine & director of the Brighton Integrative Genomics unit and was the founding director of the Centre for Precision Health and Translational Medicine at the University of Brighton.

He is currently editor and chief of the Nature springer journal of Precision health. Professor Shakur’s lab has developed AI-based platform technology for the application of multi omics transcriptomic, proteomic and metabolomic integration systems biology methods for understanding and adapting cardiac aging and mechanistic candidates for novel targets for organogenesis. They are the only UK centre affiliated with progeria foundation using Induced Pluripotent Stem cell non-integrative technology development. His lab have developed novel methods for cardiac maturity in vitro and have utilised crispr adaptive systems for mechanistic understanding to clinically thwart cardiomyopathy arrhythmogenesis development.

Professor Shakur moved back to the UK from MIT, USA in 2022 where he was the Janson chair for Cardiology and regeneration at Koch institute and was a member of the Langer labs alumni of Prof Robert Langer at MIT in biological sciences at MIT (2016-2022). Prior to MIT he was a Wellcome trust fellow at the Sanger centre UK. He was the clinical tutor at St. John’s college and the Wellcome Trust fellow for medicine at the University of Cambridge, UK. He completed his pre-clinical and MPhil at the University of Cambridge and his clinical training at the University of Oxford, UK. He completed his PhD in stem cells and regeneration at the University of Cambridge( 2015) with Prof Derek stemple and Ludovic Vallier on human IPS modelling in cardiovascular disease.

Professor Shakur was a post doctoral fellow in Prof George Church’s lab in Harvard on genome editing for human stem cell models. He is also the founder and chair of Cambridge Heartwear. Cambridge Heartwear is an AI and med tech company developing AI enabled connected cardiac devices. Cambridge Heartwear was awarded World changing idea 2019 and also won BIMA (digital awards) for best emerging technology and best advanced innovation 2019.'