Professor Peter Weinberg won a scholarship to Cambridge, where he read Natural Sciences. He then obtained a DIC, MSc and PhD from Imperial College, the latter being obtained in the Physiological Flow Studies Unit. After being awarded a Lady Davis Fellowship in the Department of Bioengineering at the Technion, Israel, and further postdoctoral studies in the Physiological Flow Studies Unit, he was appointed Lecturer and then Reader in the School of Animal and Microbial Sciences, University of Reading. In 2004, he returned to Imperial College as a Reader in the Department of Bioengineering, and was appointed Professor of Cardiovascular Mechanics there in 2007.

Professor Weinberg’s research is chiefly concerned with elucidating mechanisms involved in the development of atherosclerosis. He has developed a new theory relating the anatomically patchy distribution of atherosclerosis to variation in blood flow, endothelial nitric oxide synthesis and uptake of plasma macromolecules by the arterial wall. He is also developing methods of pulsewave analysis for assessing nitric oxide synthesis non-invasively, and is studying the large differences in vascular fluid mechanics that occur between species of different size. The work has been funded by BBSRC, EPSRC, MRC, BHF and the Wellcome Trust.

He has been elected Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society, Ordinary Member of the Physiological Society, Member of the British Atherosclerosis Society, Committee Member of the London Microcirculation Group, Committee Member of the British Society for Cardiovascular Research and Committee Member of the British Atherosclerosis Society. He was also a member of the Steering Committee of the EPSRC-funded Network in Physiological Flow Modelling and is Vice Chair of the Cardiovascular Technology Network. He has helped organise numerous conferences including the first joint meeting of the British Society for Cardiovascular Research and the British Atherosclerosis Society.