Dr Joseph J Boyle

Joseph Boyle is a Clinical Academic Fellow in the Vascular Sciences section, National Heart and Lung Institute.

Dr Boyle qualified in Pharmacology (Class I Hons, 1988) and Medicine (with Hons, 1991) from the University of Glasgow. He then did a PhD on mechanisms of macrophage-induced vascular smooth muscle cell apoptosis with Professors Peter Weissberg and Martin Bennett and Dr David Bowyer at the University of Cambridge.  He is also fully clinically trained in histopathology, mainly at Cambridge.

He then moved to Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London for 6 years as a full-time consultant cardiovascular / renal pathologist.

Dr Boyle is now a BHF Gerry Turner Intermediate Clinical Fellow with Professor Dorian Haskard working on novel macrophage inactivation pathways, and heads the Macrophage Differentiation research group.