Stephen Hart

Stephen Hart is a Reader in Molecular Genetics at UCL Institute of Child Health (ICH). He is a graduate of Liverpool University and received his PhD from the University of Cape Town in 1992. His research interests include the development of gene and siRNA delivery strategies using synthetic vector systems for a range of disease applications including cardiovascular diseases, cancers and respiratory diseases.

He has published over fifty research papers in these fields and is also an inventor on ten patent applications covering synthetic gene and siRNA delivery technologies. He is also the founder scientist of Nanogenic Solutions Ltd., a UCL spin-out company pursuing commercial developments of these technologies.

Companies

• Professor of Molecular Genetics UCL Institute of Child Health (2012)
• Founder scientist and consultant Nanogenic Solutions Ltd (2011)
• Reader UCL (2005 — 2012)
• PhD student UCT Microbiology (1987 — 1991)
• PhD student University of Cape Town (1987 — 1991)