Sandosh Padmanabhan

Prof. Sandosh Padmanabhan is the Pontecorvo Chair of Pharmacogenomics at the University of Glasgow's College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, leading the Institute of Cardiovascular & Medical Sciences. He holds a MD and PhD in Medicine from JIPMER, India, and has been recognized with awards like the Bellahouston Medal and Austin Doyle Award. His research focuses on hypertension genomics, integrating epidemiology and omics technologies to dissect cardiovascular drug responses. He leads the AIM HY consortium, discovering ancestry/metabolomic markers for antihypertensive efficacy, and co-leads functional studies on the hypertension gene UMOD. He chairs the British Hypertension Society's education committee and serves on editorial boards of Hypertension and Journal of Hypertension.

• Education: MBBS and MD (General Medicine, JIPMER, 1995), PhD (University of Glasgow, 2003)
• Research Themes: Cardiovascular Data Science, Pharmacogenomics, GWAS, Omics Integration

Recent work includes the LOCHINVAR study on post-COVID vascular effects, genotype-blinded drug trials (e.g., torasemide), and machine learning for blood pressure classification. His lab collaborates with institutions like the Broad Institute and Generation Scotland. He has published over 280 articles, with pivotal contributions to hypertension genetics and precision medicine.