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Professor Barry HALLIWELL
Deputy President
(Research and Technology)
Professor Barry Halliwell is Deputy President (Research and Technology) at the National University of Singapore. He works closely with the Deputy President (Academic Affairs)-Provost to promote research excellence and is responsible for driving the University's research agenda. He is involved in planning and establishing research institutes, centres and programmes that are of strategic importance as well as in formulating policies and agreements relating to intellectual property rights in which NUS has equity. He oversees the NUS research institutes and centres, the NUS Institutional Review Board (IRB) and NUS Institutional Animal Care & Use Committee (IACUC). His responsibilities also include overseeing the expansion and allocation of research funding.
Professor Halliwell graduated from the University of Oxford with BA (1st class) and D.Phil degrees. He holds a D.Sc degree from the University of London. He was a faculty member with the University of London, King's College from 1974 to 2000 and held a prestigious Lister Institute Research fellowship. From 1995 to 1999, he was a Visiting Research Professor of Internal Medicine and Biochemistry with the University of California, School of Medicine, Divisions of Cardiology and Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine. Professor Halliwell was a Visiting Professor of Biochemistry to NUS from 1998 to 2000. He was Head of the University's Department of Biochemistry from 2003 to 2007 and was Deputy Director, Office of Life Sciences from 2001 to 2005. From 2003 to 2008, he was Executive Director of the NUS Graduate School of Integrative Sciences and Engineering.
An internationally-acclaimed biochemist, Professor Halliwell is known especially for his seminal work on the role of free radicals and antioxidants in biological systems. The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) lists Professor Halliwell as one of the world's most highly-cited researchers in Biology and Biochemistry and his Hirsch Index is 116. His book Free Radicals in Biology and Medicine published by Oxford University Press and now in its fourth edition, is regarded worldwide as one of the most authoritative texts in the field.
His research focuses on the role of free radicals and antioxidants in human disease, particularly Alzheimer's disease and other brain disorders. His interest in identifying the most important antioxidants in the human diet and in developing novel antioxidants to treat diseases has critical bearing on treating human diseases and understanding how diet might cause or prevent them.
Professor Halliwell is Joint Managing Editor of Free Radical Research (official journal of the European Society for Free Radical Research) and is a member of several other editorial boards including FEBS Letters, Biochemical Journal, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications and Antioxidants and Redox Signalling. He has been a lead speaker at Gordon Conferences and other prestigious events worldwide and is a member of several expert advisory panels to leading universities, companies and government agencies. |
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