Professor Nilesh Samani
MRC bodies you are a member of:
- PSMB
Main form of employment:
- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester – BHF Professor of Cardiology and Head of Department of Cardiovascular Sciences
- University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust – Honorary Consultant Cardiologist and Director of NIHR Leicester Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit
Research group/department web page/s:
Personal remuneration:
- Salary from University of Leicester funded by the British Heart Foundation and University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
- Medical Research Council – member
- Department of Health – clinical excellence award
- NJ Samani Ltd - director
Shareholdings and financial interests in companies
- NJ Samani Ltd – shareholder
Research income during current session [over £50k per grant]
- I receive research funding from the British Heart Foundation, the National Institute for Health Research, the European Union, the Wellcome Trust and the Medical Research Council.
Major academic collaborators [national and international]
National
- Mark Caulfield and Patsy Munroe – Barts and the London
- Alistair Hall - Leeds
- John Danesh - Cambridge
- I am a PI on the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium
International
- Heribert Schunkert, Lubeck
- Francois Cambien, Paris
- I co-chair the CARDIoGRAM+C4D CAD genetics consortium
Un-remunerated involvement with and membership of medical, bio-medical, pharmaceutical, healthcare provision or science or health policy/communication and similar activities/organisations
- Academy of Medical Sciences in including their New Lecturers grant award panel
- British Cardiovascular Society
- Association of Physicians
- British Hypertension Society
- British Medical Association
- European Society of Cardiology
- American College of Cardiology
- American Heart Association
- Editorial Boards of Circulation Cardiovascular Genetics, Heart and Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
Political/pressure group associations:
- None
Family:
- • My son is a medical student at the University of Leicester
