
Dr Joseph Cheriyan
Consultant Physician and Clinical Pharmacologist at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge since 2006, and Affiliated Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge.
Trained in Sheffield, Nottingham and London before completing his specialist training in Cambridge. An active clinical researcher with interests in cardiovascular medicine — particularly vascular function and inflammation — and one of a few clinical triallists working on early-phase experimental medicine studies of novel therapeutics. The first MHRA-accredited Phase 1 clinical trials physician on campus.
Vice Chair of the local Research Ethics Committee, member of the Management Board of the Cambridge Clinical Trials Unit, and Director of the Cardiovascular Clinical Trials Office. Previously spent 13.5 years via a 50% industrial secondment to the GlaxoSmithKline Clinical Unit in Cambridge as Senior Physician and Clinical Pharmacologist (Senior Director level).
Training Programme Director for Clinical Pharmacology for Health Education East of England since 2019. Expert Member of the Malaysian Phase 1 Scientific Review Panel for the Ministry of Health Malaysia. Co-author of the Oxford Specialist Handbook on Hypertension.
Outside work, a keen traveller and connoisseur of fine dining.




