Dr Paul J Barton

Paul Barton is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the National Heart and Lung Institute.

He received a BSc in Biomedical Sciences from Leicester University in 1979 and a PhD in human genetics from the University of London in 1981. He subsequently undertook six years postdoctoral research at the Pasteur Institute in Paris under the direction of Dr Margaret Buckingham studying the regulation of muscle protein genes where he was supported by fellowships from the Muscular Dystrophy Association of America (MDA), the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and later as a tenured scientist of the French Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM). 

In 1989 he returned to London to join Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub at the newly formed National Heart and Lung Institute in order to investigate molecular and cellular biology of cardiac development and disease and was awarded a 10 year Senior Research Fellowship from the British Heart Foundation. He later also served as Assistant Director of Research to the Magdi Yacoub Institute, a charitable foundation established to support research into the causes and treatment of heart disease.

Dr Barton has published over 100 research papers and has been elected to Fellowship of both the European Society of Cardiology (FESC) and the American Heart Association (AHA). Dr Barton's research is funded by Heart Research UK, the UK National Institute of Health Research and by the British Heart Foundation.