Professor Pasquale Maffia is a Professor of Cardiovascular Immunology at the University of Glasgow (UK), Co-Lead of the ARUA/Guild Africa-Europe CoRE in Non-Communicable Disease and Professor of Pharmacology at University of Naples Federico II (Italy). He is an elected fellow of the BPS and the European Society of Cardiology. He serves as Vice-President (Engagement) of the BPS, Chair of the IUPHAR Immunopharmacology Committee, on the Executive Committee of the British Atherosclerosis Society, on the Fellowship Committee of the British Heart Foundation, as Vice-Chair of the Heart Research UK Translational Research Medical Review Panel, as Deputy Editor of Cardiovascular Research and Associate Editor of Pharmacological Research. He has a major interest in the immune response in cardiovascular disease. He has authored over 120 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals including Nature Genetics, Nat Rev Immunol, Nat Rev Cardiol, Immunity, European Heart Journal and Circulation.