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Professor Sian E Harding

Professor of Cardiac Pharmacology
National Heart and Lung Institute

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Professor Sian E Harding

Sian Harding is Professor of Cardiac Pharmacology at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College. She obtained her Ph.D. in Pharmacology from King's College, London in 1981, and since then the primary focus of her work has been cardiomyocyte function in the failing heart. This has extended to gene therapy to modulate cardiomyocyte function, and she is Scientific PI for the UK's first clinical trial on myocardial gene therapy. More recently the scope has extended to the characterisation of cardiomyocytes derived from embryonic stem cells, and their use in cardiac repair, tissue engineering and drug discovery.

Professor Harding is President-elect of the European Section of the International Society for Heart Research and Fellow of the American Heart Association. She sits on the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and the Scientific Advisory Board of the PPP "Stem Cells for Safer Medicines".