Professor Mauro Giacca FMedSci

Mauro Giacca is Professor of Cardiovascular Sciences at King’s College London. A world-leading scientist who moved from Italy in 2019, he is renowned for his work on endogenous cardiac regeneration and viral gene therapy. His work has established new paradigms, is at the absolute forefront of the field, and is highly promising as a potentially curative therapy for human heart failure. He has also made important contributions to HIV-1 biology, including identification of mechanisms underlying viral latency and viral integration, and has been highly active in COVID-19 research giving evidence to the House of Lords Science & Technology Select Committee.