Circulation Foundation Award

Bijan Modarai (pictured), Senior Lecturer in Vascular Surgery and Honorary Consultant Vascular Surgeon, has been awarded the President’s Early Career Award from the Circulation Foundation, a charitable organisation which funds and promotes research into the causes, prevention and treatment of vascular disease.

The President’s Early Career Award is judged by a panel of vascular surgeons and basic scientists, including Ross Naylor,the President of the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and provides £100,000 to support the winner’s research in the early years following their appointment as consultant. Mr Modarai was presented with the award at the Vascular Society Conference in November 2012.

Mr Modarai’s research is focussed on the development of novel therapeutic, diagnostic and preventative treatments for patients with critical limb ischaemia (lack of blood flow to the limb). 

He commented: 'I am delighted to have received this recognition from the Circulation Foundation. The translational studies that this award will fund should be instrumental in bringing us one step closer to clinical trials of the novel therapies that we are developing for patients with limb ischaemia.'

Mr Modarai is also a British Heart Foundation Intermediate Clinical Research Fellow, working within the King’s British Heart Foundation (BHF) Centre of Research Excellence, which was established in April 2008 with the aim of promoting cutting edge research and training in cardiovascular research.

For more information, please visit the King’s BHF Centre of Research Excellence webpages.