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5.04/23/2026

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Research Associate Professor Anna Pilbrow serves as Deputy Head of Department in the Department of Medicine (Christchurch) at the University of Otago. She holds a BSc and PhD from the University of Otago. Her research specializes in cardiovascular genetics and genomics, exploring how genetic variation contributes to susceptibility to heart disease. Pilbrow investigates genes and proteins within the heart and blood vessels that are altered in people genetically predisposed to heart disease. She aims to identify new biomarkers that will help predict the risk of heart attacks. She is also working to identify genetic variants that increase the risk of heart disease in New Zealand families who have a strong family history of premature heart disease. At the Christchurch Heart Institute's Omics Laboratory, her research focuses on mechanisms underlying inherited susceptibility to heart disease, discovering novel circulating and genetic biomarkers to predict risk and progression, including non-coding RNAs, utilizing blood and heart tissue samples from healthy volunteers and heart patients in New Zealand and the USA.

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