ProfRoger Preston

Roger Preston obtained his BSc. (Hons) in Molecular Biology from University of Aberdeen, completed an MSc. in Bioengineering at the University of Strathclyde then attained his PhD at Imperial College London. He was appointed Assistant Professor at Trinity College Dublin in 2012 then Lecturer in Vascular Biology at RCSI in 2016 and is Co-Founder and Scientific Director of the Irish Centre for Vascular Biology.

He has received several prestigious individual funding awards, including an HRB Research Fellowship (2007), a SFI Starting Investigator Research Grant (2009), an HAI Novartis Fellowship Award (2010) and SFI Career Development Award (2016). His research has been recognized by international research awards including the Novo Nordisk ‘Access-To-Insight’ Research Prize (2010), the Bayer Hemophilia Award Program Early Career Investigator Award (2013), Daiichi-Sankyo Irish Heart Foundation Award (2015) and Bayer Hemophilia Award Program Special Project Award (2016).

He has served as the Scientific Secretary of the Haematology Association of Ireland and serves on the Editorial Board of 'Seminars in Thrombosis and Haemostasis' (2015-present), 'Research and Practises in Thrombosis and Haemostasis' (2016-present) and was recently appointed an Associate Editor of 'Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis' (2018-present).