Progress Meetings will be held every 3 months for the Centre for Future Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI).  The meetings will give an opportunity for Research updates and reports from the committees. The first Progress Meeting was held on the 30th October 2025 and the 2nd Meeting is scheduled for the 13th January 2026. 

30.10.25 Progress Meeting 1: 

The Centre for Future Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) held its first Progress Meeting on Thursday 30th October. 

Sean McGinty, Principal Investigator on the grant welcomed the group to the first Progress meeting and gave a brief update on the grant as well as welcoming new PhD student Samarth  Subramanya Bhatt to the group. This was followed by Research updates and and committee reports:

Sathish Kumar gave a talk where he spoke about his recent trips to Italy and Denmark visiting our international collaborators at Politecnico di Torino, Italy, and the PCI Research Group in the Department of Cardiology at Aarhus Universitetshospital in Denmark.  Sathish spent two and a half weeks in Torino, working closely with Dr Claudio Chiastra, as well as Dr Giuseppe De Nisco and Dr Dario Carbonaro. He then spent a week in Aarhus, working with our clinical collaborators in the PCI Research Group within the Department of Cardiology.  Sathish was generously hosted by Dr Emil Holck and Dr Lene Andreasen, who provided clinical perspectives and practical insights. He also benefited greatly from discussions with Lars P. Jørgensen, Research Coordinator at the PCI Research Group. Additionally, he had the privilege of meeting Professor Evald Christiansen, the group’s clinical lead.

Shorter research updates were given by Lucia Dal Ferro, Silvia Renon, Callum MacAulay and Orla Conlon.

A potential future collaoration with the University of Southampton for the group meant we were able to welcome back Mihaela Paun, a former SofTMech member at the University of Glasgow now a lecturer at the University of Southampton. Mihaela gave a talk to the group outlining possible areas of collaboration 

The meeting concluded with Chair Updates from our newly established committees: Maximising impact, Patients & Public Involvement and  Engagement and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.

First published: 3 October 2025

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