Cardiovascular Medicine & Sciences MPhil/PhD, MDRes, MRes
MPhil/PhD from the Cardiovascular Research Division at King's College London.
Director, Ageing Research at King's
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 senior academic in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, 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.
Cross faculty consortium addressing ageing and healthy longevity.
Status not setDr Richard Siow, Director of Ageing Research at King’s, presented a landmark report exploring the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare to the...
New MRC funding will allow the study, which has followed the lives of 1037 babies born between 1 April 1972 and 31 March 1973, to examine participants at age...
The All Party Parliamentary Group for longevity launched a new strategy at King’s.
ARK European Society of Preventive Medicine Partnership
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Industry Leaders focus-group on Distributed Life Data Economy
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Ageing Research at King's (ARK) Forum
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Longevity Week 2021 Innovations in Consumer Longevity Data: A Global Perspective
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Cross faculty consortium addressing ageing and healthy longevity.
Status not setDr Richard Siow, Director of Ageing Research at King’s, presented a landmark report exploring the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare to the...
New MRC funding will allow the study, which has followed the lives of 1037 babies born between 1 April 1972 and 31 March 1973, to examine participants at age...
The All Party Parliamentary Group for longevity launched a new strategy at King’s.
ARK European Society of Preventive Medicine Partnership
Please note: this event has passed.
Industry Leaders focus-group on Distributed Life Data Economy
Please note: this event has passed.
Ageing Research at King's (ARK) Forum
Please note: this event has passed.
Longevity Week 2021 Innovations in Consumer Longevity Data: A Global Perspective
Please note: this event has passed.