Dr Laura Price

Laura Claire Price is Clinical Research Fellow at the National Heart and Lung Institute with a research interest in Pulmonary Hypertension.

Dr Price studied Medicine as an undergraduate at the University of Bristol Medical School from 1992-1998. She obtained a 2:1 in an intercalated degree in Cellular and Molecular Pathology in 1995, graduated with honours in medicine (MBChB) in 1998, and has postgraduate qualifications in anaesthesia (primary FRCA, 2001) and medicine (MRCP, 2003).

She trained in London as a junior doctor in medical specialities from 1998-2004, and spent six months working in the intensive care unit at The Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, Australia in 2004. In 2005, she commenced her specialist registrar training, obtaining national training numbers in respiratory, general and intensive care medicine on the North West London rotation, based at the Royal Brompton Hospital, and so far has rotated to St George's, Ealing and The Hammersmith Hospitals.

She has developed a clinical and research interest in pulmonary hypertension. In 2008 she spent a year working in the large tertiary pulmonary hypertension centre at the Antoine Béclère Hospital in Paris under the supervision of Professor Marc Humbert, the principal collaborator in the planned ongoing research at NHLI. She is now continuing work at NHLI examining inflammatory pathways in the monocrotaline model of pulmonary arterial hypertension, specifically studying the role of glucocorticoids and NF-kB signalling in the model and in human disease. She has been awarded a British Heart Foundation clinical research training fellowship and is working under the supervision of Dr John Wort in Critical Care and Pulmonary Vascular Diseases, Professor Ian Adcock in Molecular Cell Biology (at NHLI) and Dr Luke Howard (at the Hammersmith Hospital) to PhD level. She hopes to develop an excellent understanding of many in vivo and in vitro laboratory techniques, and to have the opportunity for ongoing collaboration with experts from NHLI.