Joseph Boyle

Biography

oseph Boyle is a British Heart Foundation Senior Clinical Research Fellow in the Vascular Sciences section, National Heart and Lung Institute. Dr Boyle qualified in Pharmacology (Class I Hons, 1988) and Medicine (with Hons, 1991) from the University of Glasgow, in the top few in the year. Work as a junior doctor witnessing fatal cardiovascular disease inspired a career in cardiovascular pathology. He then moved to the University of Cambridge and did a PhD on mechanisms of macrophage-induced vascular smooth muscle cell apoptosis with Professors Peter Weissberg and Martin Bennett and Dr David Bowyer. He is fully clinically trained in histopathology, mainly at Cambridge, and specialised in cardiovascular, renal and pulmonary pathology. He then moved to Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London for six years as a full-time consultant pathologist with an interest in renal / cardiovascular pathology. Dr Boyle’s research focus is in connecting the functional genomics of macrophage differentiation with clinical cardiovascular and renal pathology with a view to improved pharmacology

Research Interest

cardiovascular pathology, histopathology, pharmacology