Dr. Tom Keeley

Biography

Tom Keeley is a BHF Intermediate Research Fellow who works in the field of vascular physiology. After obtaining his B.Sc. in Physiology from King’s College London, he completed his Ph.D. focusing on the responses of endothelial cells to low oxygen conditions under the supervision of Professor Giovanni Mann. He had a brief postdoctoral stint at KCL before joining Peter Ratcliffe’s lab in the Nuffield Department of Medicine at Oxford in 2018 to investigate novel hypoxia signaling pathways. In 2020, he was awarded a Junior Research Fellowship in medical sciences at St. Catherine’s College. By 2025, he aims to move to DPAG to establish his own lab, supported by the BHF Intermediate Basic Sciences Research Fellowship and the Wellcome Discovery Award. His research focuses on understanding how multicellular organisms sense and respond to changes in oxygenation across various timescales, from seconds to thousands of years. Keeley’s work also delves into non-transcriptional oxygen sensing mechanisms and electrophysiological responses in specialized cell types, employing a range of biochemical, molecular, and physiological techniques to explore these biological processes.

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