The British Cardiovascular Society Young Investigator Award 2021

Correspondence to Dr Clare Coyle, Imperial College, National Institute for Health Research, London SW1A 2NL, UK; c.coyle@imperial.ac.uk Five finalists were selected for the 2021 British Cardiovascular Society (BCS) Young Investigator Award (YIA) from a competitive pool of young researchers. The prize was established by the Society 20 years ago to “recognise excellence among young researchers intending to pursue a career in cardiovascular clinical medicine or research”.1 Winner: Dr Blanca Tardajos Ayllón Dr Blanca Tardajos Ayllón is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Sheffield in the Department of Infection, Immunity and Cardiovascular Disease, funded by the British Heart Foundation. Since 2017, he has been a research fellow in the Oxford Translational Cardiovascular Research Group at the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Oxford, reading for a DPhil in Medical Sciences (figure 4).