Staff A-Z

Staff in the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences

Professor Katja Gehmlich

Professor Katja Gehmlich

Professor of Molecular Cardiology

Department of Cardiovascular Sciences

Professor Katja Gehmlich is interested in how genetic variants in genes coding for proteins involved in biomechanical stress signalling cause inherited cardiac conditions (cardiomyopathies). She employs molecular, biophysical, cellular and in vivo models in her research. In particular she is interested in using induced pluripotent stem cell derived cardiomyocytes in her research.

Dr Kayleigh Griffiths

Dr Kayleigh Griffiths

Post-Doctoral researcher

Department of Cardiovascular Sciences

Dr Kayleigh Griffiths is a British Heart Foundation postdoctoral associate within the Cardiovascular Translational Research Group “Myocardial Infarction and Heart Failure”, at Cardiovascular Sciences. Kayleigh’s current research project concentrates on the protective effects of nitrite during myocardial ischaemia reperfusion injury, which is under the guidance of Professor ...

Dr James Guggenheim

Dr James Guggenheim

Royal Society University Research Fellow and Birmingham Fellow

Department of Cardiovascular Sciences

Jamie Guggenheim is a Royal Society University Research Fellow and Birmingham Fellow working at Cardiovascular Sciences with a joint appointment in the School of Engineering.

Jamie’s research is centred on biomedical optics, primarily the development of new technologies for photoacoustic imaging.