Clinical Research Fellow

Hi Lab operates a clinical-pathway-first philosophy, taking an approach to implementing MedTech and digital health technologies (DHTs) only where a potential pentad of impact - clinical, health economic, patient-centric, workforce, and sustainability - is sufficiently compelling and understood., This Health Impact Fellowship (clinical research fellow) post is hosted by the newly formed Health Impact Lab (Hi Lab), founded in response to the urgent need for health and life sciences ecosystems to progress beyond efficacy and effectiveness research into implementation science. Hi Lab builds on a five-year team track record for bringing technology-powered clinical pathways into direct clinical care - fully realising the potential of "innovation" by implementing, studying, and optimising of the contextual factors that underpin maximal impact.

What we do

Our research focuses on understanding how changes to the function of the constituent cells of the heart lead to the clinical manifestations of disease. We use this knowledge to guide improvements in diagnostic procedures, provide better clinical management and generate novel treatments.

Why it is important

Heart and circulatory disease kills more than one in four people in the UK (causing 26 per cent of all deaths). This translates to nearly 160,000 deaths each year, an average of 435 people each day or one death every three minutes. By understanding disease processes and discovering new therapies we are endeavouring to revolutionise the treatment of heart diseases.