Prof. Manuel Mayr
Manuel Mayr is the British Heart Foundation (BHF) Professor for Cardiovascular Proteomics and Co-director of Imperial’s BHF Centre of Research Excellence. He qualified in Medicine from the University of Innsbruck (Austria) in 1999. He then moved to London to undertake a PhD on combining proteomics and metabolomics. Upon completion of his PhD in 2005, he achieved promotion to Professor in 2011. In 2017, he was awarded a BHF Personal Chair, which he moved to Imperial College London in 2023. His group uses proteomics in combination with other -omics technologies to integrate biological information in disease-specific networks that drive pathophysiological changes. While studying molecular interactions has been a research focus for many years and has provided important insight into biology, the attention has now shifted towards a more integrative network biology approach (Nat Rev Cardiol. 2021;18(5):313-330). He has published more than 300 peer review scientific papers. He is Consulting Editor for Circulation and JMCC, Associated Editor for Atherosclerosis and Cardiovascular Research and serves on the editorial boards of Circ Res, ATVB, Proteomics and Mol Cell Proteomics. His academic achievements have been recognised by the inaugural Michael Davies Early Career Award of the British Cardiovascular Society (2007), the inaugural Bernard and Joan Marshall Research Excellence Prize of the British Society for Cardiovascular Research (2010), the Outstanding Achievement Award by the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Council for Basic Cardiovascular Science (2013) and most recently the President’s Distinguished Lecture of the International Society for Heart Research (ISHR, 2022).