Prof Andrew Cook is Director of Education and leads the Centre for Morphology & Structural Heart Disease at UCL’s Institute of Cardiovascular Science / Great Ormond Street Hospital, based at the Zayed Centre for Research into Rare Disease in Children, London, UK.
He is active in research, education and training with expertise in the structural architecture of the heart during fetal development, in congenital and acquired adult disease. He is the founder of The Heart Academy.
Current research focusses on Organ-to-Cell Molecular Imaging (OCMI) linking Hierarchical Phase Contrast Tomography (HiP-CT) to Spatial transcriptomics; Deep-phenotyping of congenital and structural heart disease using synchrotron imaging and HiP-CT; the use of VR and 3D immersive environments for dissemination & education; and structural anatomy for device design.