Daqing Ma

Professor Daqing Ma, MD, PhD, FRCA, MAE, is a Full Professor of Anaesthesia and Adjunct Professor at Imperial College London, affiliated with the Department of Surgery & Cancer within the Faculty of Medicine. His research spans neuroprotection, organoprotection, and cancer biology, with a focus on anaesthetic agents like xenon and argon.

• Affiliation: Imperial College London, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgery & Cancer
• Rank: Professor

Research Interests include organoprotection in stroke, neonatal asphyxia, and kidney transplant; postoperative cognitive dysfunction and Alzheimer's disease; and cancer growth and metastasis. His work explores how anaesthetics modulate hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) to influence disease outcomes.

Scientific Awards include Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists (2013), Member of Academia Europaea (2021), and a US patent (No. 61/305500) for cognitive dysfunction research.

Article Trends show interdisciplinary work bridging Neuroscience, Oncology, and Clinical Medicine, with subfields like xenon's neuroprotective mechanisms, HIF regulation in kidney injury, and anaesthetic effects on cancer biology.

Grants from MRC, NIHR, Alzheimer’s Society-Bupa Foundation, BOC, BJA/RCoA, AAGBI, and others have supported his translational research, including clinical trials on xenon in hypoxic-ischaemia encephalopathy and cancer recurrence.