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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.