Rate My Professor Paul Evans

Professor Paul Evans is Professor of Vascular Metabolism at the William Harvey Research Institute and Dean for Research Impact in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at Queen Mary University of London, a position he took up in 2023. He previously held the post of Professor of Cardiovascular Science at the University of Sheffield from 2011, following appointments as Reader and Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London. Evans completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Wales and undertook doctoral and postdoctoral training in molecular biology at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge. His research centres on vascular metabolism, elucidating how vascular endothelial cells sense and respond to haemodynamic mechanical forces, particularly shear stress from blood flow, and how disturbed flow promotes atherosclerosis. He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed papers, including 'Notch mechanosensing in atherosclerosis' in Science Advances (2022), 'Roadmap for alleviating the manifestations of ageing in the cardiovascular system' in Nature Reviews Cardiology (2025), and 'Endothelial IGFBP6 suppresses vascular inflammation and atherosclerosis' in Nature Cardiovascular Research (2025). His laboratory has secured substantial funding, such as a £1 million British Heart Foundation Programme Grant in 2025 for investigating shear stress and endothelial factors in atherosclerosis, including a clinical trial, and additional project grants from the British Heart Foundation and Medical Research Council.

Evans has earned several prestigious awards, most notably the European Society of Cardiology Outstanding Achievement Award in 2021, the society's highest accolade for scientific excellence. He serves as Chair of the ESC Council for Basic Cardiovascular Science (2024-2026), a body working with over 5,000 cardiovascular scientists across Europe, having been elected Chair-elect in 2022. Additionally, he is Vice Chair-elect of the Gordon Research Conference on Vascular Biomechanics for 2025 and Chair-elect for 2027. Evans has successfully supervised 20 PhD students, several of whom now lead their own independent research laboratories. He contributes extensively to the academic community through chairing sessions at major international conferences, delivering keynote lectures, presenting awards, and reviewing for funding bodies such as the Medical Research Council and La Caixa Foundation.