Imaging disease

Some people die suddenly at a young age because the heart has been built a little differently. We combine many techniques to unravel these differences to understand what exactly the problem is, and how we might help patients. I’ll show how we can make heart cells from the skin cells of patients and will show how we make tools out of naturally occurring proteins in jellyfish, sea-corals, and blue-green algae and use them to visualise and control excitable cells like those found in the heart.

Matthew will talk about how MRI is used in diagnosing diseases of the heart and how his research team are expanding the capabilities of MRI for basic research and in the clinic.