Professor Rameen Shakur

Professor Shakur is an academic having trained in medicine and cardiology in Oxford and London before doing his PhD as a Wellcome trust scholar at the university of Cambridge at the Sanger centre on modelling inherited heart diseases and novel drug discovery for precision cardiology.

He undertook work at George church lab in Harvard and continued in the US at MIT before returning to the UK. He is Professor of genomics and Precision medicine at Brighton and the director of the Brighton Integrative genomics unit and the UK center for precision health and translational medicine.

He is keen to promote equity in genomics for all communities and a keen speaker on how to utilise genomics for risk stratification clinically and for a wider access to the benefits of precision medicine for all.

Rameen joined the EAC in November 2023.