Professor Harding graduated in medicine from the University of Birmingham. He is trained in general surgery and in family medicine and has a longstanding interest in wound healing. As Clinical Director of the Wound Healing Research Unit, he is currently Head of the Department of Surgery and Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine (Wound Healing).

He specialises in treating patients with wound healing problems and has authored over 250 publications and written a number of text books on wound healing that are widely considered to be definitive clinical reference books.

Professor Harding was the First President of the European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel, First Recorder of the European Wound Management Association and is currently President of the European Tissue Repair Society.

As well as conducting his own research, Professor Harding has managed a large number of large wound treatment clinical trials for large international companies and is often invited to lecture on wound management at scientific and clinical meetings.