Associate Professor Lisa Heather

Lisa Heather is an Associate Professor at the University of Oxford, UK. She completed an undergraduate degree at the University of Surrey, followed by a DPhil at the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics at the University of Oxford. Lisa was awarded a prestigious RD Lawrence Early Career Fellowship by Diabetes UK, followed by a British Heart Foundation Basic Science Fellowship. Her research group studies metabolism in the failing heart, with her current research focusing on the signalling roles metabolites play within the heart, and how these signalling pathways become dysfunctional in type 2 diabetes. She has published extensively in high impact journals including Circulation Research, Diabetes and Nature Cardiovascular Research. She has received the Innovators in Diabetes Award, Lilly Diabetes Award, Bayliss-Starling award from the Physiological Society, and most recently the International Society for Heart Research Outstanding Investigator award.