Future Tech: Almost Here, Round-the-corner Future Technology Podcast

While working at his post doc at Oxford University, Dr. Akbar focuses on the signals the immune system uses and resulting actions through extracellular vesicles research. He discusses: How our body’s healing mechanisms post-heart attack can both benefit and undercut healthy arteries through immune-induced inflammation. The difference between a healthy blood vessel and atherosclerosis plaque build up and how the epithelial cell cascade that the body sends to heal the area ends up progressing the inflammatory condition. Why his research to turn on and off these inflammatory signals may aid in better healing from heart disease. Dr. Naveed Akbar focuses on extracellular vesicles research and how the vesicles relate to metabolic disease. Atherosclerosis, which causes heart attacks and strokes, tends to be much thicker in a diabetic patient. He believes this junction of immunological and metabolic disease is an important crossroads.  He explains that while atherosclerosis builds up over decades due to ma