Timothy Palmer is a professor at the Hull York Medical School at the University of Hull. He completed his Ph.D. in Molecular Pharmacology at the University of Glasgow. He carried out postdoctoral training as an American Heart Association Research Fellow in the Cardiology Division at Duke University Medical Centre, North Carolina, USA. He returned to the UK in 1997 as a Lecturer in Biochemistry at the University of Glasgow and developed an externally funded research program focusing on cardiovascular cell signalling and disease. From 2015, he was Professor of Pharmacology and Head of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics at the School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences at the University of Bradford before being recruited to a Chair in Cardiovascular Biology at Hull York Medical School in 2018. He was awarded the American Heart Association Basic Science Research Fellowship in 1996–1997. His interests include identifying the molecular mechanisms responsible for cardiovascular disease.