Professor of Cardiovascular Proteomics, Imperial College London, London, UK
Opportunities and Challenges in Clinical Proteomics: From Tissue Discovery to Plasma Validation
Host:S. Zacchigna
Bio:
Manuel Mayr is the British Heart Foundation (BHF) Professor for Cardiovascular Proteomics.
He qualified in Medicine from the University of Innsbruck (Austria) in 1999. After his medical
degree, he worked with Prof. Qingbo Xu at the Austrian Academy of Sciences from 1999 to
2001. In 2001, he moved together with Prof. Qingbo Xu to London to undertake a PhD, on
the topic of “Cardiovascular Proteomics: Linking Proteomic and Metabolomic Changes”. He
obtained a BHF Intermediate Research Fellowship in 2005 and was appointed as Lecturer at
King’s College London in 2006. In 2008, he was successful in obtaining a BHF Senior Research
Fellowship and achieved promotion to Professor in 2011. In 2017, he has been awarded a BHF
Personal Chair, which he moved to Imperial College London in 2023.
His group uses proteomics in combination with other -omics technologies to integrate
biological information in disease-specific networks that drive pathophysiological changes.
While studying molecular interactions has been a research focus for many years and has
provided important insight into biology, the attention has now shifted towards a more
integrative network biology approach (Nat Rev Cardiol. 2021;18(5):313-330).
His academic achievements have been recognised by the inaugural Michael Davies Early Career Award of
the British Cardiovascular Society (2007), the inaugural Bernard and Joan Marshall Research Excellence
Prize of the British Society for Cardiovascular Research (2010), the Outstanding Achievement Award by
the European Society of Cardiology Council for Basic Cardiovascular Science (2013) and the President’s
Distinguished Lecture of the International Society for Heart Research (2022).
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