Rate My Professor Caroline Wheeler-Jones

Caroline Wheeler-Jones began her career with post-doctoral studies in human platelets at the Thrombosis Research Unit, King’s College London, followed by research on human endothelial cells with Professor Jeremy Pearson, supported by a British Heart Foundation Intermediate Fellowship that launched her independent research. She joined the Royal Veterinary College as a Lecturer in late 1997, advancing to her personal Chair. She has held key roles including Head of the Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, BVetMed Cardiovascular and Respiratory Strand Leader, BSc Course Director, Director of Intercalation, and Chairman of the BSc Committee. She teaches cardiovascular anatomy, physiology, and pharmacology to BSc Bioveterinary Sciences, BVetMed, and Graduate BVetMed students, and has contributed to curriculum development, including establishing the third-year BSc BioVetSci programme and organising the alliance with King’s College London. Administratively, she has chaired undergraduate and postgraduate committees, served on examination boards, and acted as external examiner for veterinary and biomedical programmes at universities including Nottingham, Bristol, Dublin, Imperial, and King’s College London. She was a Member of RVC Council from 2010-2016 and has received the James Bee Educator Prize twice for teaching excellence. Selected publications include: Faulkner et al., 'Context-dependent regulation of endothelial cell metabolism: differential effects of the PPARβ/δ agonist GW0742 and VEGF-A' (Scientific Reports, 2020); Patel et al., 'Differing calcification processes in cultured vascular smooth muscle cells and osteoblasts' (Experimental Cell Research, 2019); Al-Rashed et al., 'Celecoxib exerts protective effects in the vascular endothelium via COX-2-independent activation of AMPK-CREB-Nrf2 signalling' (Scientific Reports, 2018); Lawson et al., 'The cat as a naturally occurring model of renal interstitial fibrosis' (PLoS One, 2018); and Lawson et al., 'Renal fibrosis in feline chronic kidney disease' (Veterinary Journal, 2015).