Sex and drugs: my rock and roll
Amrita is Dean for Research in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the Barts and London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Director of the UKCRC-accredited Barts Cardiovascular Clinical Trials Unit, and Professor of Vascular Pharmacology at Queen Mary University of London where she is a Principal Investigator leading the Vascular Pharmacology Group.
Her research focuses on understanding the role of inflammation in cardiac and vascular disease with a focus on the non-canonical pathway for NO generation and delineating the mechanisms that underlie sex differences in cardiovascular physiology and disease.
Throughout her career, Amrita has persistently raised awareness of the sex bias in experimental work, increased diverse representation in biomedical science, promoted responsible animal research, and nurtured the next generation of researchers. She was a Project licence holder for over 15 years and in her seven years as Editor in Chief of the British Journal of Pharmacology, she helped generate an incredible amount of practical and internationally relevant guidance on animal experimentation.
Before the lecture, UAR interviewed Amrita about her career.
Starting her lectures with what she has in common with Stephen Paget, Amrita went on to talk about how differences in sex impact cardiovascular disease and the importance of robust experimental studies involving both male and female animals.
https://www.understandinganimalresearch.org.uk/resources/video-library/2023-paget-lecture-sex-and-drugs-my-rock-and-roll
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