Emanuele Di Angelantonio

Personal details

Name: Prof Emanuele Di Angelantonio, MD, MSc, PhD, FMedSci

Faculty/Department: University of Cambridge, School of Clinical Medicine, Department of Public Health and Primary Care

Current appointment: Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Donor Health

Director, NIHR Blood and Transplant Research Unit in Donor Health & Behaviour 

Director, Health Data Science Research Centre, Human Technopole, Milan, Italy

Deputy Director, Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge

Honorary Consultant, NHS Blood and Transplant

Education/Qualifications

2007-2010 PhD in Epidemiology, Queens’ College, University of Cambridge 

2004-2005 MSc in Medical Statistics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

1999-2004 Specialist clinical training in General Internal Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Rome “Sapienza”, Italy

1993-1999 “Laurea in Medicina e Chirurgia” (MBBS equivalent), School of Clinical Medicine, University of Rome “Sapienza”, Italy (graduated with distinction)

Professional History

2022- Director, NIHR Blood and Transplant Research Unit in Donor Health & Behaviour

2021- Director, Health Data Science Research Centre, Human Technopole, Milan, Italy

2018- Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Donor Health

2015-2022 Director, NIHR Blood and Transplant Research Unit in Donor Health & Genomics

2012- Principal Investigator in Donor Population Health and Honorary Consultant, NHS Blood and Transplant

2010- 2017 University Lecturer in Medical Screening, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge

2007-2009 Honorary Clinical Fellow, Department of Cardiology, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, University of Cambridge. 

2005-2009 Research Associate, Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge.

2003-2004 Specialist Registrar, Department of Cardiology, Policlinico Umberto I Hospital, University of Rome “Sapienza”, Italy. 

2002-2003 Specialist Registrar, Department of Cardiology, Saint-Antoine Hospital, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris and Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France.

2000-2002 Senior House Officer and Specialist Registrar, Department of Internal Medicine, Policlinico Umberto I Hospital, University of Rome “Sapienza”, Italy.

1999-2000 Pre-registration House Officer, Policlinico Umberto I Hospital, University of Rome “Sapienza”, Italy.

Other Appointments and Affiliations

Advisory positions

2023- Member of Our Future Health access board

2020- Member of Our Future Health scientific advisory board

2020- Member of EURAC Research Institute scientific advisory board

2020- Member of European Association of Preventive Cardiology scientific advisory board

2019- Chair of the working group for the “European Society of Cardiology – Cardiovascular Risk Collaboration” 

2019-2021 Member of European Society of Cardiology 2021 Prevention guidelines committee

2019-2021 Member of World Health Organisation “Hearts” Technical Package

2019-2021 Member of the World Obesity Federation and World Heart Federation ‘Expert Group on Obesity and CVD’

2018-2020 Member of the NHSBT Clinical Trial Unit Steering Committee

2017-2020 European Society of Cardiology / European Atherosclerosis Society Task Force for Guidelines on Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease and Management of Dyslipidaemia

2016-2020 Member of the World Health Organisation “Risk Chart Working Group” (developing risk prediction models for all WHO countries)

2016- 2020 Member of the Cambridge BioResource Scientific Advisory Board and Management Committee

2016-2022 Nucleus member of the European Association of Preventive Cardiology (EAPC) – Prevention, Epidemiology and Population Science Section

2015-2019 Member of NHS Blood and Transplant National Research and Development committee

2015-2020 Member (and NHS Blood and Transplant representative) of the UK Blood Services Standing Advisory Committee on the Care and Selection of Donors

2014-2020 Associate Scientific Member (and NHS Blood and Transplant representative) of the international Biomedical Excellence for Safer Transfusion (BEST) Collaborative.

2012-2020 Member of NHS Blood and Transplant Blood Donation National Research Strategy Group

Affiliations

2006- GMC specialist registration (specialty: General Internal Medicine) Ref No: 6138939

2000- Abilitazione all’esercizio della professione [Italian medical license to practice] Ref No: M 50378

Peer review activities and editorships

2025 Deputy Editor of the Epidemiology Section at the European Heart Journal

2022- Associate Editor for international scientific journals (inc European Heart Journal, European Journal of Preventive Cardiology)

2020-          Expert Peer Review, Health Research Council (New Zealand)

2020-        Expert Peer Review, UKRI MRC Council

2018-2023 Associate Editor, Atherosclerosis and Global Heart

2017-2020 Member of the British Heart Foundation Project Grant Committee

2009- Peer-reviewer for national and international grant applications (inc Medical Research Council, British Heart Foundation, National Institute of Health Research, Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development)

2008- Peer-reviewer for international scientific journals (inc Lancet, JAMA, BMJ, PLoS Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, European Heart Journal, Stroke, Diabetologia) 

2008-2020 Editorial Board, Archives of Cardiovascular Disease 

Prizes, Awards and other Honours 

2023 Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences

2022 National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Senior Investigator award

2019 Viviane Conraads Achievement Award, European Association of Preventive Cardiology  

2018 Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London

2015 Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology

2014 Fellow of the American Heart Association