Research Interests: Biophysics and pharmacology of cardiac ion channels. Genotype-Phenotype relationships in inherited arrhythmia syndromes. In silico modeling of inherited arrhythmia syndromes. Structural basis of drug binding to hERG K+ channels.
Professor Jamie Vandenberg completed his medical degree at the University of Sydney (1988) and his PhD in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge (1994). He undertook postdoctoral studies in cardiac electrophysiology at the University of Oxford then moved to the University of Cambridge where he established an independent group looking at the molecular basis of cardiac arrhythmias. In 2002, he relocated to the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, where he is currently Co-Deputy Director and Head of the Mark Cowley Lidwill Research Program in Cardiac Electrophysiology. He is a National Health and Medical Research Council Principal Research Fellow, and in 2015 was elected to the Fellowship of the Heart rhythm Society (USA) and the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. His research has focused on the molecular basis of cardiac electrical activity and understanding the genesis of cardiac arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death.