Faculty Profiles

The King Lab studies diseases in which the immune system becomes activated even though there is no infection, such as heart attacks, metabolic disease, autoimmunity, or cancer. He combines conventional biological methods with novel bioengineering techniques to develop therapies that limit organ dysfunction and promote healing, repair and regeneration.

Capsule Bio:

King was a cardiology fellow at Brigham and Women's Hospital before joining UC San Diego in 2017. He earned his Ph.D. from MIT and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School. He shares an appointment across the Shu Chien-Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering and the Department of Cardiology at the UC San Diego School of Medicine.