Prof Greg Lip, Director of the Liverpool Centre for Cardiovascular Science, has been named as one of the new 2024 LJMU Honorary Fellows.

An honorary fellowship is the highest award at a university. It is a public recognition of outstanding professional achievements and individuals are celebrated as role models for our students and our staff. The new fellows come from a wide range of backgrounds, including health, education, music, television, the maritime industry and charitable organisations.

Professor Lip is the Founding Director of the Liverpool Centre for Cardiovascular Science (LCCS), which is a research centre of excellence for LJMU. Over the last five years, Gregory has developed a truly collaborative multidisciplinary centre encompassing LJMU, the University of Liverpool, Liverpool Health Partners and Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital (and other NHS Partners). As a clinical academic and consultant cardiologist, he has developed a multi-disciplinary team of clinical academics, basic/translational scientists and data science experts enabling translation of research into clinical practice, which is particularly important in the Liverpool region which has some of the highest morbidity and mortality associated with cardiovascular disease and stroke.

Professor Lip is one of an international partnership of researchers and clinicians, led by LJMU, on a €10m grant through the European Union’s Horizon funding scheme. Using data science, the multidisciplinary team which includes six hospitals, eight universities, four companies and a charity, aims to develop personalised, integrated, multi-scale computational models and decision-support tools for stroke related to atrial fibrillation.

Professor Mark Power, LJMU’s Vice Chancellor said: “I’m already proud of our association with Professor Lip via the LCCS and our Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences and I look forward to how we can work with him and his associates in the future.

The new fellows will be conferred during a ceremony in October.