Biography
Mauro Giacca, MD PhD, is Head of the School of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine & Sciences, and Professor of Cardiovascular Sciences at the Faculty of Medicine & Life Sciences, King’s College London. Until 2019, he has served as the Director-General of the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), an organization in the United Nations system based in Italy. In 2005, he became a Full Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of Trieste, Italy.
He is the President of the International Society for Heart Research (ISHR) European Section and serves on the scientific boards of numerous academic institutions internationally. He is a founder of Forcefield Therapeutics and Heqet Therapeutics, two recent startups that develop cardiovascular biologics, and the co-founder of Purespring Therapeutics, which operates in the field of AAV gene therapy of the kidney. He is an elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the United Kingdom.
He received his Degree in Medicine from the University of Trieste, Italy and his PhD in Microbiology and Virology from the University of Genoa, Italy.
A medical doctor by training, he is considered an expert in the generation of viral vectors for cardiovascular applications and the development of novel biologics for cardiac repair and regeneration in patients with myocardial infarction and heart failure. He has published over 400 papers in international journals, in addition to several reviews and chapters in books and university textbooks. His research has been founded by numerous international grants, including two consecutive ERC Advanced Investigator grants, and a British Heart Foundation Programme Grant.
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Carai, P., Ruozi, G., Paye, A., Debing, Y., Bortolotti, F., Lecomte, J., Zentilin, L., Jones, E. A. V., Giacca, M. & Heymans, S., Dec 2022, In: Scientific Reports. 12, 1, 7304. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-11131-w
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Vukicevic, S., Colliva, A., Kufner, V., Martinelli, V., Moimas, S., Vodret, S., Rumenovic, V., Milosevic, M., Brkljacic, B., Delic-Brkljacic, D., Correa, R., Giacca, M., Maglione, M., Bordukalo-Niksic, T., Dumic-Cule, I. & Zacchigna, S., Dec 2022, In: Nature Communications. 13, 1, 81. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27622-9
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Nuzzi, V., Del Mestre, E., Degrassi, A., Bromage, D. I., Manca, P., Piper, S., Artico, J., Gentile, P., Scott, P. A., Chiatto, M., Merlo, M., Pareek, N., Giacca, M., Sinagra, G., McDonagh, T. A. & Cannata, A., Sep 2022, In: Current cardiology reports. 24, 9, p. 1085-1091 7 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11886-022-01730-4
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Ruozi, G., Bortolotti, F., Mura, A., Tomczyk, M., Falcione, A., Martinelli, V., Vodret, S., Braga, L., Dal Ferro, M., Cannatà, A., Zentilin, L., Sinagra, G., Zacchigna, S. & Giacca, M., 31 Aug 2022, In: Science translational medicine. 14, 660, p. eabo0699 abo0699. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.abo0699
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Gortan Cappellari, G., Semolic, A., Ruozi, G., Barbetta, D., Bortolotti, F., Vinci, P., Zanetti, M., Mak, R. H., Garibotto, G., Giacca, M. & Barazzoni, R., Aug 2022, In: Metabolism: clinical and experimental. 133, 155242. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.metabol.2022.155242
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Doevendans, P. A., Kupatt, C., Giacca, M. & Glijnis, P., Jul 2022, In: Netherlands Heart Journal. 30, 7-8, p. 343-344 2 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12471-022-01665-z
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Cannata, A., Watson, S. A., Daniel, A., Giacca, M., Shah, A. M., McDonagh, T. A., Scott, P. A. & Bromage, D. I., 27 May 2022, In: European journal of preventive cardiology. 29, 8, p. 1266-1274 9 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1093/eurjpc/zwab119
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Ahamad, S., Ali, H., Secco, I., Giacca, M. & Gupta, D., 25 Mar 2022, In: Frontiers of Genetics . 13, 866474. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2022.866474
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Del Campo, C. V., Liaw, N. Y., Gunadasa-Rohling, M., Matthaei, M., Braga, L., Kennedy, T., Salinas, G., Voigt, N., Giacca, M., Zimmermann, W. H. & Riley, P. R., 1 Feb 2022, In: Cardiovascular Research. 118, 2, p. 597-611 15 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1093/cvr/cvab054
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van der Velden, J., Asselbergs, F. W., Bakkers, J., Batkai, S., Bertrand, L., Bezzina, C. R., Bot, I., Brundel, B., Carrier, L., Chamuleau, S., Ciccarelli, M., Dawson, D., Davidson, S. M., Dendorfer, A., Duncker, D. J., Eschenhagen, T., Fabritz, L., Falcão-Pires, I., Ferdinandy, P., Giacca, M., & 41 othersGirao, H., Gollmann-Tepeköylü, C., Gyongyosi, M., Guzik, T. J., Hamdani, N., Heymans, S., Hilfiker, A., Hilfiker-Kleiner, D., Hoekstra, A. G., Hulot, J-S., Kuster, D. W. D., van Laake, L. W., Lecour, S., Leiner, T., Linke, W. A., Lumens, J., Lutgens, E., Madonna, R., Maegdefessel, L., Mayr, M., van der Meer, P., Passier, R., Perbellini, F., Perrino, C., Pesce, M., Priori, S., Remme, C. A., Rosenhahn, B., Schotten, U., Schulz, R., Sipido, K., Sluijter, J. P. G., van Steenbeek, F., Steffens, S., Terracciano, C. M., Tocchetti, C. G., Vlasman, P., Yeung, K. K., Zacchigna, S., Zwaagman, D. & Thum, T., 6 Jan 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Cardiovascular Research. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1093/cvr/cvab370