DrSoumaya Ben-Aicha Gonzalez

Honorary Senior Research Fellow

National Heart & Lung Institute - Faculty of Medicine

  • Honorary Senior Research Fellow
    National Heart & Lung Institute - Faculty of Medicine
  • ICTEM building, Hammersmith Campus, United Kingdom

BIO

Dr. Soumaya Ben-Aicha, obtained her Doctorate in Medicine and Translational Research with distinction at the University of Barcelona in Spain, achieving an Excellent Cum Laude along with an Excellence award. She also undertook a significant learning experience at Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf in Germany, where she gained invaluable insights into cardiac electrophysiology and expanded her international professional network.

Transitioning to London, United Kingdom, Dr. Ben-Aicha became affiliated with Imperial College London. Dr. Ben-Aicha's work specializes in Immunology and Cardiology, particularly the study of immune populations within the setting of Coronary Artery Disease. Her expertise also extends to the complex realm of nanoparticles, specifically lipid nanoparticles (High-density lipoproteins (HDL) and Low-density lipoproteins (LDL)), and small extracellular particles. Her primary area of concentration lies in preventive cardiology. Moreover, she possesses large expertise in cardiovascular risk factors, specifically hypercholesterolemia. Dr. Soumaya Ben-Aicha also possesses studies in machine learning for advancing diagnostic and therapeutic approaches by integrating innovative programming and artificial intelligence techniques.

Dr. Ben-Aicha's accomplishments have been recognized both nationally and internationally, securing various honours, awards, and funding. As an example, she has recently been appointed as a Nucleus Member of the prestigious Scientist of Tomorrow Group and the Atherosclerosis and Vascular Biology Working group within the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). Additionally, she was awarded a highly competitive British Heart Foundation (BHF) Centre of Excellence Fellowship and she has been recently awarded a BHF Project Grant.

She is a professional and active contributor member of the European Society of Clinical Investigation (ESCI) and the ESC,
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LANGUAGES

  • Spanish; Castilian
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • Catalan; Valencian
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • English
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • Arabic
    Can read, write, speak and understand
  • French
    Can read, write, speak and understand
  • German
    Can understand

FACULTY

  • Faculty of Medicine

POSITION NAME

  • Honorary Senior Research Fellow