Shoumo Bhattacharya is an Indian medical doctor and academic, and the British Heart Foundation (BHF) Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the BHF Centre of Research Excellence, University of Oxford.
[1] Bhattacharya studied medicine at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, qualifying as MBBS 1983, and MD in 1985.
Bhattacharya was a Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow at Oxford from 1998 to 2008.
This includes research on how proteins in the saliva of ticks might be able to prevent myocarditis.
He has also been investigating how environmental factors act together with gene variations to influence the development of heart conditions, for example studying how a mother's diet may affect the chances of congenital heart disease in the baby, and how stress (such as high blood pressure) interacts with gene variations to cause heart failure.