Dr Barry Bentley

Health and Care Research Wales Faculty award/s:

Award: Personal Award Accelerator (2025)

Biography

Dr Barry L Bentley is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Bioengineering at Cardiff Metropolitan University and a Research Fellow in Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). He earned his PhD at the University of Cambridge, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, where he mapped the neuromodulatory connectome of C. elegans. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, the Foresight Institute and the Higher Education Academy.

His Health and Care Research Wales funded research, in collaboration with the Wales Kidney Research Unit, focuses on developing damage-free preservation methods for kidneys, aiming to improve organ availability for transplantation. His broader expertise includes bioengineering approaches to cell, tissue and organ preservation.

Dr Bentley also leads the International Consortium to Classify Ageing-Related Pathologies (ICCARP), working to improve the classification and staging of age-related diseases and prepare healthcare systems for an ageing population.

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Health and Care Research Wales Announces Latest Round of Personal and Project Funding Awards