Derek M. Yellon

Derek M Yellon is Professor of Molecular & Cellular Cardiology at University College London (UCL) & Director of the Hatter Cardiovascular Institute at UCL Hospitals (UCLH) & Medical School. He also served as Programme Director (Cardiology & Diabetes) for the National Institute for Health Research- UCLH/UCL Biomedical Research Centre from 2013-2017. Professor Yellon was an NIHR Senior Investigator from 2011-2015.

Professor Yellon received his PhD in Cardiovascular Pharmacology from the University of Bath in 1978 and in 1994 was awarded a Doctor of Science (DSc) for his “substantial contribution to the knowledge of cardiovascular disease & treatment”, from the University of Bath. Professor Yellon had his early education (1968-1974) at the University of Cape Town and Cape College for Advanced Education in South Africa and was recently awarded a Doctor of Science (honoris causa) from the University of Cape Town for his “distinguished research in cardiovascular medicine”.

He is significant for establishing a second Hatter Cardiovascular Institute at the Medical School of the University of Cape Town in 1996, to which he is Director and Past Chairman of the Institute Board. In recognition of these achievements he was in 1997, awarded an Honorary Chair in the Department of Medicine at the University of Cape Town. In association with this development Professor Yellon established the “At the Limits" series of educational programmes.

Yellon serves on multiple advisory boards and was on the International Advisory Committee (IAC) for Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes for the Government of Mauritius in which he helped to establish a National Service Framework (NSF) for cardiovascular disease and diabetes