John Danesh Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, UK Email: jd292@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Panos Deloukas William Harvey research Institute, Barts and the London School of medicine & Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, UK; Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK Email: p.deloukas@qmul.ac.uk
Jeanette Erdmann Institut für Integrative und Experimentelle Genomik, Universität zu Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany Email: jeanette.erdmann@iieg.uni-luebeck.de
Dongfeng Gu Department of Population Genetics and Prevention, Fu Wai Hospital & Cardiovascular Institute, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China Email: gudongfeng@vip.sina.com
Anders Hamsten Atherosclerosis Research Unit, Department of Medicine Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Center for Molecular Medicine and Department of Cardiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden Email: Anders.Hamsten@ki.se
Sekar Kathiresan Cardiovascular Research Center and Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Email: skathiresan@partners.org
Jaspal S Kooner National Heart and Lung Institute (NHLI), Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK. Email: j.kooner@imperial.ac.uk
Robert Roberts University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Cardiovascular Research Methods Centre and Ruddy Canadian Cardiovascular Genetics Centre, Ontario, Canada Email: rroberts@ottawaheart.ca
Nilesh J Samani (Chair) Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK; National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Leicester Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK. Email: njs@leicester.ac.uk
Unnur Thorsteinsdottir deCODE Genetics, Sturlugata 8, Reykjavik, Iceland; University of Iceland, Faculty of Medicine, Reykjavik, Iceland Email: unnur.thorsteinsdottir@decode.is
Hugh Watkins Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Email: hugh.watkins@cardiov.ox.ac.uk
Members
Themistocles L Assimes Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA Email: tassimes@stanford.edu
Stefan Blankenberg University Heart Center Hamburg, Clinic for general and interventional Cardiology, Hamburg, Germany Email: s.blankenberg@uke.de
Bernhard O Boehm Division of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Department of Internal Medicine, Ulm University Medical Centre, Ulm, Germany Email: bernhard.boehm@uniklinik-ulm.de
John C Chambers Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK Email: j.chambers@imperial.ac.uk
Robert Clarke Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Email: robert.clarke@ctsu.ox.ac.uk
Rory Collins Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Email: rory.collins@ctsu.ox.ac.uk
George Dedoussis Department of Dietetics-Nutrition, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece Email: dedousi@hua.gr
Paul W Franks Department of Clinical Sciences, Genetic & Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Lund University Diabetes Center, Skåne University Hosptial, Malmö, Sweden Department of Public Health & Clinical Medicine, Genetic Epidemiology & Clinical Research Group, Section for Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden; Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA USA Email: paul.franks@med.lu.se
G Kees Hovingh Department of Vascular Medicine, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Email: G.K.Hovingh@amc.uva.nl
Erik Ingelsson Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Email: erik.ingelsson@ki.se
Bong-Jo Kim Division of Structural and Functional Genomics Center for Genome Science, Korea National Institute of Health, Korea Email: bborumi@gmail.com
Terho Lehtimäki Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland; Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Tampere School of Medicine, Tampere, Finland Email: terho.lehtimaki@uta.fi
Winfried März Synlab Academy, Mannheim, Germany; Medical Clinic V (Nephrology • Hypertensiology • Endocrinology • Diabetology • Rheumatology), Medical Faculty of Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany Email: winfried.maerz@synlab.com, winfried.maerz@medma.uni-heidelberg.de
Ruth McPherson Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Canada Email: rmcphers@ottawaheart.ca
Andres Metspalu Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia; Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia Email: andres.metspalu@ut.ee
Markku S Nieminen Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Helsinki University Central Hospital (HUCH), Helsinki, Finland Email: markku.nieminen@hus.fi
Christopher O'Donnell Framingham Heart Study, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Framingham, MA 01702, USA Email: odonnellc@nhlbi.nih.gov
Colin N A Palmer Medical Research Institute, University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, UK Email: nuclear-receptor@dundee.ac.uk
Markus Perola Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland Email: markus.perola@thl.fi
Muredach P Reilly Cardiovascular Institute, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA Email: muredach@mail.med.upenn.edu
Samuli Ripatti Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki FIN-00271, Finland; Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK Email: samuli.ripatti@thl.fi
Danish Saleheen Center for Non-Communicable Diseases, Karachi, Pakistan; Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Email: DS436@medschl.cam.ac.uk
Manjinder S Sandhu MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK; Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK Email: ms23@sanger.ac.uk
Stefan Schreiber Institut für Klinische Molekularbiologie, Christian-Albrechts Universität, Kiel, Germany Email: s.schreiber@mucosa.de
Agneta Siegbahn Uppsala Clinical Research Center, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden Email: agneta.siegbahn@medsci.uu.se
Cristen J Willer Department of Internal Medicine , Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, and Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Email: cristen@umich.edu
Pierre A Zalloua Lebanese American University, Chouran, Beirut, Lebanon Email: pzalloua@lau.edu.lb
