Professor Peter Weinberg

Cardiovascular disease and physiological flow

Atherosclerosis, the disease underlying most heart attacks and strokes, is characterised in its early stages by the focal accumulation of lipid, cells and connective tissue components within the arterial wall. A striking feature of the disease is that these lesions develop in some regions of the arterial system but not others. That suggests the existence of powerful local risk factors controlling the development of the disease; understanding these factors could provide new routes for intervening in the disease process. Our lab focuses on the roles of local blood flow and variations in the permeability of the wall to circulating lipoproteins.

The clinical specialty relevant to: Pathology and surgery, applied to the cardiovascular system.

Further Information
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/people/p.weinberg

Contact Details
p.weinberg@imperial.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 1517