Richard Siow is a graduate of King’s (BSc Nutrition, PhD Cardiovascular Physiology) and following postdoctoral research in the Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, he joined the School of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine & Sciences at King's as a Lecturer in November 2001. He was previously Vice-Dean (International), Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, Faculty Lead for the King's College Service Committee.

Since 2015 he has been the Director of Ageing Research at King’s (ARK), a cross-university consortium of researchers taking a multidisciplinary approach to better understand the mechanisms of ageing, improving health-span and the social and economic impact of ageing.

He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford, Honorary Secretary General of the European Society for Preventive Medicine. and previously a visiting academic in the Healthy Longevity Centre at University of Zurich, Switzerland.

His research team focuses on the role of nutrigenomics and ageing on redox signalling in cardiovascular and cerebrovascular health and disease. He has numerous international collaborations including University of Oxford, University of Zurich, National University of Singapore, Harvard Medical School, Charite Berlin, Technical University of Dresden and University of Tsukuba, Japan.

Richard championed the Framework Partnership between King’s and Unilever through his research collaborations and one year sabbatical at their global R&D Centres, which led to the establishment of the Unilever Bioscience Innovation Hub at King's. Richard had also established the King’s India Summer Session at Unilever Bangalore, a unique international academic-industry educational initiative.

He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology and Fellow of the European Society for Preventive Medicine, UK Lead for the International Society on Ageing & Disease. He was previously a Committee Member of the European Society for Microcirculation and Society for Free Radical Research - Europe.

Richard is the Specialty Chief Editor, Healthy Longevity Section of Frontiers in Ageing, an Associate Editor of Frontiers in Nutrition, member of the International Advisory Board of The Lancet Healthy Longevity and a member of the Strategic Advisory Board of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Longevity. He has published over 90 peer-reviewed papers and has been awarded over £4m in collaborative research funding.

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