Emeritus ProfessorMichael Schneider

Professor Schneider was recruited in September 2007 as the incoming Head of Cardiovascular Science for the National Heart and Lung Institute, and served as Head of NHLI from 1 January 2009 through 31 August 2011.

He was educated at Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and Duke, followed by research training at the NIH under Nobel Laureate Marshall Nirenberg. In 1984, he was appointed to the nascent program in cardiac molecular biology at Baylor College of Medicine, ultimately becoming Professor of Medicine, Molecular & Cellular Biology, and Molecular Physiology & Biophysics, Director of the Center for Cardiovascular Development, and inaugural recipient of the M. D. Anderson Foundation Chair. His trainees number more than 80, and have been recognized by young investigator competitions and professorships world-wide.

Professor Schneider was the British Heart Foundation Simon Marks Professor of Regenerative Cardiology and Director of Imperial's BHF Centre for Research Excellence (2008-2019). He was the recipient of a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, an ERC Advanced Investigator Grant, the 2007 Distinguished Achievement Award of the American Heart Association Council on Basic Cardiovascular Sciences, the 2008 Medical Futures Cardiovascular Innovation Award, the 2010 Duke Medical Alumni Award, the 2011 Annual Clinical School Lecture at Cambridge, the 2011 Mikamo Lectureship of the Japanese Circulation Society, and the 2012 Jeffrey Isner Memorial Lecture at Tufts University. 

He currently served on peer-review panels for the Wellcome Trust and ERC, was a Governor of the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, and served as a member of the MRC Council (2008-2016).

Professor Schneider headed the Cardiac Myogenesis, Death and Regeneration research group.

Read his 2012 profile in Circulation:

http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/125/16/f91.full.pdf?ijkey=zUCiZX6wgs7zMxH&keytype=ref