Professor Rameen Shakur is an academic clinician scientist in cardiology and currently the Professor of Genomics and Precision Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Brighton. He is the Director of the Brighton Integrative Genomics (BIG) Unit and was the Founding Director of the Centre for Precision Health and Translational Medicine. Professor Shakur moved back to the UK from MIT, USA in 2022 where he was the Janson fellow for Cardiology and Regeneration at the Koch Institute and was a member of the Langer labs alumni of Prof Robert Langer at MIT in biological sciences (2016-2022). Prior to MIT, he was a Wellcome trust fellow at the Sanger Centre UK. He was the Clinical Tutor at St. John's College and the Wellcome Trust Clinical Fellow for medicine at the University of Cambridge, UK. Professor Shakur was an Isabelle Bouhon fellow in Prof George Church's lab in Harvard University where he worked on genome editing for human stem cell models. He is also the Founder and Chair of Cambridge Heartwear in 2018, an AI and medical device translational company with IP driven applications using foundational AI models and novel engineering to define cardiac risk in real time.