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Cardiovascular sciences
The University of Surrey has access to state-of-the-art laboratories and conducts multidisciplinary cutting edge research into targeted therapies and diagnostic biomarkers for cardiometabolic disorders.
Research in this area
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Diabetes research.
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Researchers
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Dr Daniel Abasolo
Head of Centre for Biomedical Engineering, Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Engineering
About my research
Areas of specialism: Biomedical signal processing and machine learning for characterisation of healthy ageing, epilepsy and related disorders; early diagnosis of dementia, in particular Alzheimer's disease.
Medical and health indications and disease stages: Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia, epilepsy and related disorders, ageing, and diabetes; diagnosis and, potentially, prevention/treatment when early diagnosis is successful.
Associated research centres and groups: Centre for Biomedical Engineering.
Research funding and collaborators: St. George's Hospital, University of Warwick, University of Strathclyde, University of Edinburgh, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Khalifa University.
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Professor Brendan Howlin
Professor of Computational Chemistry
About my research
Areas of specialism: Development of anti-aging drugs.
Medical and health indications and disease stages: Diabetes ageing. Prevention, diagnosis, treatment or recovery.
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Professor H Lilian Tang
Professor in Artificial Intelligence
About my research
Areas of specialism: Development of an automated system to separate normal and abnormal cases of digital retinal images, investigation of stochastic variations in growth rates a mechanism of drug tolerance in mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Medical and health indications and disease stages: Diabetes and tuberculosis.
Research funding and collaborators: BBSRC, EPSRC.
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Research at Surrey
Research here at the University of Surrey seeks to answer global challenges, drive innovation and deliver real-world impact. We are working in various areas of research including lifelong health, sustainability and artificial intelligence.