Paul Riley is a British Heart Foundation Professor of Regenerative Medicine and the inaugural Director of the Institute of Developmental and Regenerative Medicine at the University of Oxford. He was formerly Professor of Molecular Cardiology at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health in London where he was a principal investigator within the Molecular Medicine Unit for 12 years. Prior to this, he obtained his PhD at the Institute of Zoology, affiliated with UCL, and completed post-doctoral fellowships in Toronto and Oxford.
In 2008, he was awarded an Outstanding Achievement Award by the European Society of Cardiology and in 2014 he was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
His research interests span multiple aspects of cardiovascular development and regeneration, as conserved across zebrafish, mouse and human models, with a specific focus on restoring embryonic potential in the injured adult heart to facilitate optimal tissue repair and restoration.
Professional position
- Director, Institute of Developmental and Regenerative Medicine, University of Oxford
- Chair of Development and Cell Biology & British Heart Foundation Professor of Regenerative Medicine, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford
Subject groups
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Health and Human Sciences
Molecular medicine
