Professor Newby is currently British Heart Foundation Professor of Cardiology at the University of Edinburgh and the Translational Professor for the Translational Medicine Research Collaboration. He is also the Director of the Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility and the Clinical Research Imaging Centre. He is the Director of Research and Development for NHS Lothian and a Consultant Interventional Cardiologist at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.  

 Professor Newby’s principal research interests are in endothelial and vascular biology, acute coronary syndromes and heart failure; focusing on clinical experimental and translational medicine. He currently holds a Programme Grant from the British Heart Foundation to explore the adverse cardiovascular effects of air pollution. Professor Newby is involved in several multi-centre trials and has played a major role in conducting the SALTIRE (Scottish Aortic stenosis Lipid lowering Trial, Impact on REgression) and 3CPO (Health Technology Assessment trial of non-invasive ventilation for acute cardiogenic pulmonary oedema) trials.