Dr Olly Brown is a Clinical Research Fellow at the University of Leeds undertaking a PhD investigating cross talk between the endothelium and adipose tissue in people with heart failure and diabetes. He completed medical school, academic foundation training and an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship in the Yorkshire region before going out of programme (OOPR) to complete his PhD. His research interests involve using both basic and translational science approaches with large population datasets to study patients with heart failure and cardiometabolic disease.