Rate My Professor Clare Gallon

Professor Clare Gallon serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences within the University of Exeter Medical School. She holds the position of Director of Education and Student Experience for Undergraduate Biomedical Sciences, contributing significantly to the leadership team and undergraduate programs in the department. Gallon earned her PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Birmingham in 2014 and a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the same university in 2001. Her career at the University of Exeter has progressed through roles including Senior Lecturer, focusing on both research and education in biomedical sciences.

Gallon's research specializations encompass skeletal muscle physiology, contractile proteins, cardiomyopathies, muscle biology, muscle contraction, and muscle proteins. Her work particularly examines the tropomyosin binding region of cardiac troponin T and its modulation of crossbridge recruitment dynamics in rat cardiac muscle fibers, as detailed in her 2013 publication. She has investigated myofibrillar Ca2+-sensitivity uncoupled from troponin I phosphorylation in hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy due to abnormal troponin T (2012), thin filaments reconstituted with troponin from cardiomyopathy patients showing functional abnormalities (2010), troponin I phosphorylation sites in human heart muscle (2010), and the use of phosphate-affinity SDS-PAGE to measure troponin I phosphorylation site distribution in human heart muscle (2009). With 20 publications and 472 citations, her contributions have advanced understanding of muscle function and cardiac disease mechanisms. Gallon has been honored for teaching excellence, receiving the Most Inspirational Teacher award and Educational Inspirer from the College of Medicine and Health in 2019, and Educational Motivator from the University of Exeter Medical School awards in 2018. She has participated in public engagements, including a talk titled 'a voyage from synthetic peptides to human hearts' on her postgraduate and career path.