Dr Pinar Ulug is a Project Manager within the Coronary Research Group at King’s College London, led by Professor Divaka Perera. Since joining in May 2026, she has been involved in coordinating and managing cardiovascular research activities, including clinical trials, research governance, regulatory approvals and the development of new research projects and funding applications.

Dr Ulug completed her BSc in Biological Sciences with French at the University of Rochester, New York, as a Fulbright/Cyprus-America Scholarship Program (CASP) Scholar, followed by an MSc in Molecular Biology at the University of Wales, Cardiff. She obtained her PhD in Molecular Haematology from King’s College London, undertaking MRC-funded research in Professor Swee Lay Thein’s laboratory investigating markers of disease severity in sickle cell disease.

Following a postdoctoral research position at Queen Mary, University of London, Dr Ulug joined Imperial College London’s Vascular Surgery Research Group in 2009, where she spent over 15 years as a Clinical Trial Manager and Research Fellow. Her work included the NIHR-funded IMPROVE trial, comparing emergency endovascular and open repair of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms, and an individual patient data meta-analysis of four international randomised controlled trials (EVAR-1, DREAM, OVER and ACE) comparing elective endovascular and open aneurysm repair.

She also contributed to the NIHR-funded SWAN (Screening Women for Abdominal aNeurysms) project, investigating the clinical benefits and cost-effectiveness of screening women for abdominal aortic aneurysm, in collaboration with researchers from Cambridge, Leicester and Brunel universities.

More recently, she managed and coordinated the British Society of Endovascular Therapy’s BSET-CLEVAR Registry, a prospective multicentre observational study evaluating a conformable endovascular stent-graft used in abdominal aortic aneurysm repair.

Dr Ulug has authored and co-authored numerous peer-reviewed publications, including articles in The Lancet, The BMJ, British Journal of Surgery and European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery. Her research experience encompasses clinical trials, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, outcomes research and the use of NHS Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data, including research into sex-specific differences in patient outcomes.