Professor Leeson, Head of the Cardiovascular Clinical Research Facility in the Radcliffe Department of Medicine, co-leads an Oxford BRC sub-theme aiming to tackle maternal cardiovascular risk.
Also appointed as Senior Investigators were Professor Rahman, Director of the Oxford Respiratory Trials Unit in the Nuffield Department of Medicine, Professor Sir Aziz Sheikh, Head of the University of Oxford's Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, and Professor Rachel Upthegrove, Director of the NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre.
Each year, the NIHR appoints a new cohort of Senior Investigators to serve a four-year term. They receive funding to support their research leadership activities, as well as acting as mentors and role models for early-career researchers and helping to develop research capacity and talent in underrepresented groups, specialities and geographic areas.
Senior Investigators are members of the NIHR Academy, and as such, they play an important role in mentoring, training and developing the careers of other researchers.