Summary
Sian Harding is Professor of Cardiac Pharmacology at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, and Director of the Imperial Cardiac Regenerative Medicine Centre https://www.imperial.ac.uk/bhf-regenerative-medicine/.
She obtained her Ph.D. in Pharmacology from King's College, London in 1981, and since then the primary focus of her work has been cardiomyocyte function in the failing heart. This has extended to gene therapy to modulate cardiomyocyte function, and she was Scientific PI for the UK's first clinical trial on myocardial gene therapy. More recently the scope has extended to the characterisation of cardiomyocytes derived from embryonic stem cells, and their use in cardiac repair, tissue engineering and drug discovery.
Professor Harding is Past-President of the European Section of the International Society for Heart Research, is on the Board of the British Society for Gene and Cell Therapy and has been elected as a Fellow to the AHA, ESC and ISHR. She was Special Advisor to the House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee on Regenerative Medicine and is now a member of the CGT Catapult: Pluripotent stem cells programme Advisory Panel.
Professor Harding delivered her Inaugural Lecture, entitled 'Reviving the Failing Heart: one cell at a time', on 3 April 2007. The abstract and other details of the lecture can be found here.
Publications
Journals
Tranter MH, Redfors B, Wright PT, et al., 2022, Hyperthermia as a trigger for Takotsubo syndrome in a rat model, Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, Vol:9
Couch LS, Fiedler J, Chick G, et al., 2022, Circulating microRNAs predispose to takotsubo syndrome following high-dose adrenaline exposure, Cardiovascular Research, Vol:118, ISSN:0008-6363, Pages:1758-1770
Fassina D, Costa CM, Longobardi S, et al., 2022, Modelling the interaction between stem cells derived cardiomyocytes patches and host myocardium to aid non-arrhythmic engineered heart tissue design, Plos Computational Biology, Vol:18, ISSN:1553-734X
Pitoulis FG, Nunez-Toldra R, Xiao K, et al., 2022, Remodelling of adult cardiac tissue subjected to physiological and pathological mechanical load in vitro, Cardiovascular Research, Vol:118, ISSN:0008-6363, Pages:814-827
Boyalla V, Harling L, Snell A, et al., 2022, Biomarkers as predictors of recurrence of atrial fibrillation post ablation: an updated and expanded systematic review and meta-analysis, Clinical Research in Cardiology, Vol:111, ISSN:1861-0684, Pages:680-691