Georgina Ellison-Hughes is Professor of Regenerative Muscle Physiology and Marie Curie Fellow in the Centre of Human & Applied Physiological Sciences, King’s College London, UK. She has a BSc Sports Science (Physiology), First Class, and PhD entitled ‘Myocyte Death and Renewal in Skeletal and Cardiac Muscle’ supervised by Prof. David F. Goldspink, at Liverpool JM University, UK. She completed postdoctoral studies at New York Medical College, and Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NYC, USA. She was a post-doctoral fellow of the American Heart Association whilst training in New York, USA, 2003-2007. Her research programme focuses on understanding the biology of ageing, and in particular the role of cellular senescence, in the regeneration and repair of striated (skeletal and cardiac) muscle. Approaches include exercise training, administration of small molecule regenerative growth factors and/or stem cells, and targeting cell senescence. We have shown how targeting or modulating cell senescence improves cardiac repair and regeneration. She has made highly impactful contributions to the field establishing a world-leading track record with publications in top journals (Cell, Circ Res, Eur Heart J, Cell Research, Aging Cell).

She is a member of the UNESCO Executive committee ‘Anti-Aging and Disease Prevention’, launched in Beijing, China 2019, where together with 17 members, she contributes to promoting research and development of effective, safe and accessible anti-aging and preventive therapies to the world. During the pandemic she contributed to experimental clinical trials where mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (MSCs) were transplanted as a treatment for COVID-19 cytokine storm and ARDS.

She has delivered >45 Plenary, Invited Speaker & Session chairs at International and National conferences and is a TEDx Speaker. What becomes of the broken heartened: Rejuvenating hearts. https://youtu.be/MFjkw13A0-4