Prof. Philippa Talmud University College London, UK

Philippa Talmud heads the Lipid Subgroup within the Centre for Cardiovascular Genetics at UCL. She obtained her BSc at the University of Cape Town, South Africa and her PhD and DSc at University College London. The focus of her work has been the study of genes involved in lipid metabolism... read moreand their contribution to heart disease risk focusing on the interaction with environmental modulators. In addition the underlying mechanisms for these interactions have been studied, using both in vivo and in vitro expression systems.