Professor Susan Rosser
Susan is Professor of Synthetic Biology at the University of Edinburgh, where she also directs the UKRI Engineering Biology for Advanced Therapeutics Hub and co-directs the Edinburgh Genome Foundry. A major challenge for gene therapies is that to be …
Itamar Levin
Itamar is a REACT-funded PhD student with over three years of wet lab experience investigating RNA and RNA binding proteins. It has been demonstrated that following cardiac infarction that many RNAs within the cells undergo alternative splicing leading to …
Emma Jones
Emma is a REACT-funded DPhil student in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics at the University of Oxford, supervised by Dr Ian McCracken. Her research investigates how new blood vessels form in the adult heart after a heart attack, and how …
Dr Andreas Gerondopoulos
Andreas is REACT's Programme Manager, working from King's College London to support work across the centre. Andreas has a background in vesicle trafficking, cell biology and rare disease which provides a strong foundation for understanding the molecular …
Leadership team
The REACT leadership team are responsible for all decisions related to the MRC/BHF CoRE in Advanced Cardiac Therapies. The leadership team is chaired by Professor Mauro Giacca , REACT Director, with support from Co-Directors Professor Andy Baker and …
Horace Chan
Horace Chan is a PhD student who recently started a REACT studentship under the supervision of Professors Mairi Brittan, Andy Baker and Dave Newby at the University of Edinburgh. Horace completed an MScR at the Institute for Regeneration and Repair at the …
Lived experience advocates
Cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of death worldwide. Coronary artery disease leading to heart attack and ultimately heart failure is the biggest contributor. There is no known cure for heart failure, other than organ transplantation. This …
Andy Baker awarded the RSE Sir James Black Medal
REACT Co-director Professor Andy Baker has been awarded the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) Sir James Black Medal, which recognises exceptional contributions to research across Scotland. Andy receives the award for his leading work in cardiovascular …
Professor Brian Bigger
Brian is an expert in translational gene therapy, having developed several lentiviral-based ex vivo haematopoietic stem cell gene therapies for childhood dementias and taken these through to Phase I/II clinical trial. He has also developed and worked …
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