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Professor Paul Riley

Roles and subjects

Professorial Fellow in Medicine

Contact

Paul.Riley@idrm.ox.ac.uk

Professor Paul Riley is Professorial Fellow in Medicine at Jesus College, British Heart Foundation Professor of Regenerative Medicine, Director of the Institute of Developmental & Regenerative Medicine; Chair of Development and Cell Biology in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics at the University of Oxford.

Academic Background

Qualifications:

BSc: University of Leeds, Department of Zoology; 1987-1990
PhD: University College London, Institute of Zoology; 1992-1995

Research Positions:

Welcome International Travelling Fellow: Post-doctoral training at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto CA; 1996-1999

Post-doctoral Training at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford; 1999

Non-Clinical Lecturer (1999-2000); Senior Lecturer (2003-2007); Reader (2007-2009); Professor (2009-2011), UCL-Institute of Child Health; 1999-2011

British Heart Foundation Professor of Regenerative Medicine; Chair of Development and Reproduction, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics University of Oxford; 2011-present.

Inaugural Director of The Institute of Developmental & Regenerative Medicine, University of Oxford; 2020 -present.

Awards:

Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences 2014
European Society of Cardiology Basic Sciences Council Outstanding Achievement Award 2008
MRC Career Establishment Award 2003-2008

Undergraduate Teaching

Oxford:

FHS of Medical and Physiological Sciences (2012- present)

University College London:

BSc Biomedical Sciences, SGHMS (2006-2011);
BSc Veterinary Sciences; RVC (2007-2011): Cardiovascular Development.

Postgraduate Teaching

Oxford:

Stem cells: A Pathway through the Maze (OSCI; 2012-present)

University College London:

MSc in Prenatal Genetics and Fetal Medicine (2001-2011): Cardiovascular Development;
MRes in Biomedicine (2002-2011): Expression Systems;
UCL CoMPLEX MRes (2007-2011): Wound healing;
MSc Heart and Circulation (2009-2011): Cardiovascular Stem Cells.

Research Interests

Cardiovascular development and regeneration;

Transcriptional control of heart development and models of congenital heart disease;

Resident stem/progenitor cell-derived cardiac repair and regeneration.

Links

Subject notes for courses taught at Jesus College:

See also the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and GeneticsOxford Stem Cell Institute, BHF Regenerative Medicine Centre and Institute of Developmental & Regenerative Medicine websites.