HRI welcomes Prof Julie McMullen to the team

The Heart Research Institute (HRI) is delighted to announce that Prof Julie McMullen has joined the Institute as Deputy Director and Director of Research.

Prof McMullen, who joins HRI from heading the Cardiac Hypertrophy laboratory at the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, is an internationally recognised figure in the field of cardiovascular research. She completed training as a Cardiology Research Fellow at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre and Harvard Medical School in Boston.

Prof McMullen’s research aims to advance understanding of cardiovascular conditions such as heart failure at a molecular level to enhance treatments for this condition, which is rapidly increasing in Australia and globally.

“I’m thrilled to take up this new position at HRI and to be working with international leaders, up-and-coming talented researchers, and the incredibly supportive operations teams at HRI. Through my appointment at The University of Sydney, I also look forward to collaborating with researchers within the School of Life and Environmental Sciences (SOLES) and the Charles Perkins Centre (CPC). In my experience, the most exciting discoveries come from wide ranging and diverse collaborations”.

Prof Andrew Coats AO, Scientific Director and CEO, warmly welcomes Prof McMullen.

“Prof McMullen is a star research leader dedicated to advancing knowledge and helping nurture future research leaders,” he said. “Her work on unravelling the nature and signals underlying overgrowth of heart muscle (hypertrophy) has been groundbreaking and helped us understand the critical differences between the harmful hypertrophy of disease from the beneficial hypertrophy of the athlete’s heart.

“Julie has hit the ground running with multiple prestigious awards and grants this year that she brings to HRI.”