#LivefromLucy: 'Mending broken hearts (and blood vessels) with stem cells' with Dr Sanjay Sinha

Wed 9 December 2020

Lucy Cavendish College

Dr Sinha will explain the power of stem cells and how they make huge differences in how we understand and treat a range of different heart and blood vessel diseases. He will also cover a wide range of topics from 'disease-in-a-dish' approaches to how to repair damaged hearts to testing new treatments for Covid-19.

About the speaker

Dr Sanjay Sinha is a British Heart Foundation Senior Research Fellow and a Reader at the University of Cambridge. He completed medical training in Cambridge, followed by a PhD in Manchester. Dr Sinha then carried out post-doctoral studies in the USA before founding his group within the Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute. He has established new ways to use human stem cells to aid developmental studies and generate human models of vascular diseases, in particular Marfan syndrome. He is also investigating novel techniques to regenerate the damaged heart. Dr Sinha is also a Cardiologist and he combines his research work with clinical duties at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, where he treats patients with a wide variety of cardiovascular diseases.

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