The five-year funding, totalling $7 million (£5.08 million), has been awarded by the Leducq Foundation as part of its International Networks of Excellence Programme.
The aim of this programme is to bring together teams of researchers from around the world with complementary expertise and resources. They will work to generate new knowledge with the potential to advance the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of cardiovascular and neurovascular disease.
Their work is due to start on 1 January 2022, with the European part of the network coordinated by Professor Alastair Buchan from the University of Oxford’s Radcliffe Department of Medicine (RDM). He will work closely with Professor Russell Foster from the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute (Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences) and Professor David Ray from the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism (part of RDM).