Aroon Hingorani PhD, FRCP

Professor Aroon Hingorani is a UCL Professor of Genetic Epidemiology. He is a former Director of the UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science (2011-2021), current Director of the UCL BHF Research Accelerator, Cardiovascular Programme Lead for the UCL Hospitals NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, and a co-Investigator in the Precision Medicine Research Initiative of the HDRUK London site. He is Consultant Physician at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and an NIHR Senior Investigator.

He graduated in Physiological Sciences from the University of Oxford in 1986, and in Medicine, from the United Medical and Dental Schools (Guy’s Hospital) in 1989. After clinical posts in London, he undertook research on the genetics of high blood pressure as an MRC Clinical Training Fellow at the University of Cambridge, obtaining his PhD in 1997. He continued specialist training in General Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology at UCL and UCL Hospitals, pursuing research on endothelial function in cardiovascular disease and then cardiovascular genomics, as a British Heart Foundation Intermediate and then Senior Fellow. His current work focuses on the use of genetic studies in populations as a tool to identify and validate drug targets, using the Mendelian randomization principle.