Symposium Speaker

Manuel Mayr

Manuel Mayr is Professor of Cardiovascular Proteomics at the British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence at King’s College London and a Senior Fellow of the British Heart Foundation. He received his first degree in medicine from the University of Innsbruck, Austria in 1999, where he graduated “sub ausspiciis presidentis rei publicae”, the highest distinction awarded for academic education. From 1996-1998 he worked with Prof. Georg Wick at the Institute of Experimental Pathology, Innsbruck, Austria on the role of heat shock proteins in atherosclerosis. Beginning his postdoctoral studies, he joined Prof. Qingbo Xu’s group at the Institute of Biomedical Aging Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, working in the area of animal models and cellular signalling in response to biomechanical stress.

In 2001, he moved together with Prof. Xu to London, where he developed his proteomic skills and obtained his PhD from the University of London in 2005. In 2006, he spent a sabbatical in Prof. Peipei Ping’s laboratory at the University of California, Los Angeles, to further advance his skills in mass spectrometry. By this time, he has established his own research group and has been awarded the inaugural Michael Davies Research Award by the British Cardiac Society in 2007 and the inaugural Bernard and Joan Marshall Research Excellence Award by the British Society for Cardiovascular Research in 2010. His research interest is to demonstrate how the combination of emerging technologies, such as proteomics, metabolomics and miRNA profiling, can advance our understanding of cardiovascular disease processes (www.vascular-proteomics.com).

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