Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute

At the Baker we are devoted to the prevention and cure of cardiovascular disease. Every research dollar we attract and spend goes into finding out why people are getting sick and dying and the best ways we might help them get better and stay alive. We are finding out more about who is at risk and how we might stop heart attack, stroke, sudden cardiac death and the like from ever happening. In this way, explaining what we do is simple.

Research at the Baker is broadly divided into four themes: Experimental Cardiology and Heart Failure; Atherosclerosis and Vascular; Diabetes and Metabolism and Cardiovascular Neuroscience. Four associate directors of the Baker, each of them internationally renowned scientists and clinicians, lead these divisions. Together they oversee the research activities of the Baker's scientific laboratories. A researcher who is at the top of their field in turn heads each of these labs.

The Cardiovascular Neuroscience Division of the Baker Institute studies the direct links the brain has with the heart, in particular how these "go wrong" to cause psychogenic Heart Disease, the theme for the conference.