Dr Carmel McEniery

Dr Carmel McEniery was awarded her PhD from The University of Queensland, Australia, in 2001. She then moved to the University of Cambridge where she commenced a postdoctoral research fellowship in the Clinical Pharmacology Unit, based at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, under the supervision of Dr Ian Wilkinson and Professor Morris Brown. She is currently employed in the same unit as a British Heart Foundation-funded Senior Research Associate and holds a teaching fellowship in Physiology at Churchill College, Cambridge. Her broad research area is cardiovascular physiology, and her main area of current research is arterial stiffness and, in particular, the mechanisms driving the changes in arterial stiffness with aging. She is also leading research into the mechanisms underlying systolic hypertension in young people, which forms part of The Enigma Study, a long-term follow-up study investigating the origins of hypertension. In 2004, Dr McEniery was awarded the British Hypertension Society Young Investigator Prize and the ARTERY IV Young Investigator Award.