Sweet signals, bitter truths: taste sensing and cardiovascular disease (In-person)

About this event

This event takes place on our Cambridge campus. You can also join us virtually.

Did you know that your blood vessels have the ability to taste? In her Inaugural Professorial Lecture, Prof Havovi Chichger will delve into the critical role of taste sensing in health and disease which her research has identified. She will provide mechanistic insights into how taste receptors, traditionally found in the mouth, regulate blood vessel function in the lungs. Havovi will also provide a ‘flavour’ of how her research is unlocking the potential of taste receptors as a therapeutic tool to treat patients with lung disease.

Join us for the talk from 6pm and a free drinks reception from 7pm.

About our speaker

Havovi Chichger is a Professor in Biomedical Science at Anglia Ruskin University. She joined ARU in 2015, as a Senior Lecturer and has worked as a Course Director for the MSc Applied Bioscience degree and Deputy Head of School with responsibility for Research and Innovation. Her research focuses on investigating signalling processes in the endothelium which form the basis of new therapies to treat vascular disease.

Prof Chichger has work published in major scientific journals, is a member of various expert panels including The Conversation UK Editorial Board and the World Health Organisation Nutritional Advisory Committee, and her discoveries have led to the development of an international patent and a current clinical trial in the US in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome.

Prior to joining ARU, Havovi received her PhD from University College London studying how the kidney manages blood glucose levels in type 1 and 2 diabetes. Her postdoctoral fellowship was at the Vascular Research Laboratory at Brown University where she investigated the cell signalling which regulates blood vessel function.