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Stefan Neubauer

FMedSci FRCP


Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine

  • Honorary Consultant Cardiologist
  • Head of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Director, University of Oxford Centre Clinical Magnetic Resonance Research (OCMR)

Phenotyping of cardiovascular and multiorgan disease with advanced non-invasive imaging methods

Stefan Neubauer is a Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Head of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and Director of the Oxford Centre for Clinical Magnetic Resonance Research (OCMR), University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, United Kingdom.

Professor Neubauer’s work over the past 35 years has been devoted to the development and application of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR) imaging and spectroscopy, and, in recent years, also to the development of novel liver and multiorgan MR imaging as well as novel coronary CT imaging.

He has attracted over £180M in research funding, has published >580 original research articles and currently leads a group of ~60 co-workers. He has supervised over 50 PhD/MD students, who have won >25 young investigator awards.

Editorial positions and contributions to scientific bodies include:

  • Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (President 2006-2007)
  • Chairman of the British Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (2008-2010)
  • International Associate Editor of the European Heart Journal (2010-2020)
  • Associate Editor of the Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance.

Awards and Honours include:

  • American Heart Association Paul Dudley White International Lectureship Award 2005
  • British Cardiovascular Society Thomas Lewis Lecture 2008
  • National Institute for Health Research Senior Investigator Award 2010
  • the European Magnetic Resonance Award 2010
  • the SCMR Gold Medal 2013

Professor Neubauer is a fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences. He has been the leader of the Imaging Theme for the Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre since 2017. He is also a founder, and was (2012-2019) CMO of Perspectum, a biomedical imaging biotech company, and is a founder and NED of Caristo Diagnostics (since 2018), a cardiac CT spinout company.

Recent publications

Ten Years of Scientific Discovery With the UK Biobank Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study

Journal article

Raisi-Estabragh Z. et al, (2026), Circulation, 154, 490 - 511

Pictorial review: a step-by-step guide to coronary CT angiography with photon-counting detector CT

Journal article

Xie C. et al, (2026), British Journal of Radiology, 99, 1518 - 1528

Cardiac energetics in health and disease: a meta-analysis

Journal article

Bray JJH. et al, (2026), European Heart Journal - Imaging Methods and Practice, 4

Trientine for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: a phase 2 trial.

Journal article

Farrant JP. et al, (2026), European heart journal

Biobank-Scale Plasma Proteomics Identifies Novel Biomarkers in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Journal article

Chan JH. et al, (2026), Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine, 19

Predictors of Long-Term Outcomes in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: The NHLBI HCM Registry.

Journal article

HCMR Investigators . et al, (2026), JAMA