Dr Sandosh Padmanabhan

Clinical Senior Lecturer
Email: sp24g@clinmed.gla.ac.uk
Tel: 0141-330-8428
Fax: 0141-330-6997

Sandosh Padmanabhan graduated in medicine in 1992 followed by post-graduation in internal medicine in 1995 from JIPMER, Pondicherry University, India. Moving to the UK in 1996, he worked in Clinical Medicine and Nephrology in Barnstaple and Bristol, before coming to Glasgow in 1999 to do his PhD in hypertension genetics with Profs Connell and Dominiczak and his PhD thesis was awarded the Bellahouston Medal by the University of Glasgow. He has also received the Austin Doyle award from the International Society of Hypertension. He is currently a Clinical Senior Lecturer at the BHF Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre and Honorary Consultant Physician at the Western Infirmary in Glasgow. He is working on a British Heart Foundation Intermediate Fellowship (Hypertension pharmacogenetics - Discovering genetic determinants of blood pressure response). He is one of the principal investigators in the MRC/Kidney Research Glomerulonephritis DNA Bank part of the MRC DNA banking initiative. His main research interests include cardiovascular genetic epidemiology, genetic analysis of complex traits and pharmacogenetics. He coordinates the Pharmacogenomics and Molecular Medicine course of the MSc Clinical Pharmacology programme at the University of Glasgow, and his major clinical commitment includes running the Glasgow Blood Pressure Clinic.