Prof Derek Yellon

University College London and University College London Hospital 

CHI membership: Scientific Advisory Board

Derek M Yellon PhD, DSc (UK), DSc (SA), FRCP, FACC, FESC, FAHA, FBCS is Professor of Molecular & Cellular Cardiology at University College London (UCL) & Director of the Hatter Cardiovascular Institute UCL & UCL Hospital.  He is also a Hon Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the University of Cape Town and holds Honorary Chairs at the University of South Alabama in the USA, and the North China Coal Medical University in China.

He has published in excess of 600 full papers and edited 23 books. He runs a translational research Institute whose interest relates to the pathophysiology of acute MI & cardioprotection in the setting of diabetes, ischaemia/reperfusion injury & molecular aspects of ischaemic injury in both the basic and clinical arena.

Research engagements:

• Cardioprotection in the basic and clinical setting
• The pathophysiology of  ischaemia and reperfusion injury
• Cardio-Oncology
• Neuroprotection in the setting of ischaemixc stroke