Dr. Gavin Richardson, PhD is a Senior Lecturer and acting lead of the Vascular Medicine and Biology Theme at the Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University. Dr. Richardson is the lead of the heart platform for the Quality in Organ Donation (QUOD) biobank and BHF National Centre for Regenerative Medicine collaborator with imperial college London. He obtained his PhD in prostate cancer stem cell biology in Newcastle in 2004 and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Durham University studying skin dermal stem cells and skin aging. In 2010 Dr. Richardson re-joined Newcastle University on an independent fellowship to apply his expertise in regeneration and aging to study age-related cardiovascular disease. During his career, Dr. Richardson has worked in institutions including Columbia and Harvard Universities as a visiting Fellow. His research aims to understand how senescence contributes to the pathophysiology of cardiovascular disease focusing on senescence-associated inflammation and maladaptive myocardial remodeling. Dr. Richardson’s current work aims to characterize the cardiac senescence signature to identify novel biomarkers of cardiovascular disease and develop new therapies, targeting senescence, to attenuate their detrimental impact on myocardial function.