DrPaul Barton, FESC FAHA

Paul Barton is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the National Heart and Lung Institute (NHLI, Imperial College London), Genetics Research Manager at the Royal Brompton Hospital (Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust), and a founding member of the Cardiovascular Genetics and Genomics Group (cvgenetics.org).

Following a PhD in human genetics from the University of London, he undertook postdoctoral training at the Institut Pasteur Paris under Margaret Buckingham FRS, supported by fellowships from the Muscular Dystrophy Association of America (MDA) and European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and later as a tenured staff scientist (CR1, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale; INSERM).

Paul was later recruited to the newly formed National Heart and Lung Institute (NHLI) by Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub OM FRS where he established a team investigating molecular and cellular mechanisms of cardiac development and disease. Supported initially by a 10-year Senior Research Fellowship from the British Heart Foundation, he subseqeuntly became Reader in Molecular Biology at NHLI and Assistant Director of Research at the Magdi Yacoub Institute, Harefield.

In 2011, Paul was recruited by Professor Stuart Cook to the newly formed Cardiovascular Genetics and Genomics Group at The Royal Brompton Hospital, where he currently works with Professor James Ware, dividing his time between the Royal Brompton Hospital, NHLI Imperial College and the MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences (LMS).

Paul has published over 230 papers and contributed to a variety of books including Gray’s Anatomy. He holds elected Fellowships from both the European Society of Cardiology (FESC) and the American Heart Association (FAHA).