Dr Michael Emerson

Dr Michael Emerson joined Imperial College in 2005 and is a Senior Lecturer in the Molecular Medicine Section of the National Heart and Lung Institute. He is Head of the Platelet Biology Group in South Kensington and teaches on various undergraduate medicine courses.

Dr Emerson studied Animal Physiology and Nutrition at the University of Leeds and obtained a PhD from King’s College London in 1998. His PhD thesis defined the antithrombotic role of endogenous nitric oxide in vivo.

He then embarked upon several post-doctoral positions including stints at the Universities of Sydney, Edinburgh and Manchester gaining experience in embryology, gene therapy in large mammals and murine cardiovascular physiology.

His current research is focussed on the identification of novel signalling pathways in platelets and in determining the role of the vascular endothelium in regulating platelet function and thrombotic disease in vivo.