World's Best Scientists 2026 revealed!
Award Badge
Best Scientists
2025
Award Badge
Biology and Biochemistry
Singapore
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Best Scientists

D-Index
216
Citations
260738
World Ranking
154
National Ranking
1

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
212
Citations
259323
World Ranking
25
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Singapore Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Singapore Leader Award
  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Barry Halliwell is affiliated with the National University of Singapore in Singapore. Their research spans multiple fields centered mainly on medicine and biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology.

The primary subfields of study include molecular biology, pharmacology, nutrition and dietetics, complementary and alternative medicine, and biochemistry.

Their research topics cover a range of areas related to oxidative stress, antioxidants, and bioactive compounds. Notable topics of work include:

  • Fungal Biology and Applications
  • Vitamin C and Antioxidants Research
  • Medicinal Plants and Bioactive Compounds
  • Free Radicals and Antioxidants
  • Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies
  • Antioxidant Activity and Oxidative Stress
  • Cholinesterase and Neurodegenerative Diseases

Frequent coauthors in Halliwell's research network include:

  • Irwin K. Cheah
  • Richard M. Y. Tang
  • Wei-Yi Ong
  • Christopher Chen
  • Kelvin J.A. Davies

Key publication venues for Halliwell's work are:

  • Free Radical Biology and Medicine
  • Antioxidants
  • FEBS Letters
  • Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Significant recent papers authored or coauthored by Halliwell include:

  • Understanding mechanisms of antioxidant action in health and disease, 2023, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
  • Hydroxyl radical is a significant player in oxidative DNA damage in vivo, 2021, Chemical Society Reviews

Additional related publications in which Halliwell had a key authorship or collaboration are:

  • Guidelines for measuring reactive oxygen species and oxidative damage in cells and in vivo, 2022, Nature Metabolism (authored by Michael P. Murphy)
  • Ergothioneine, recent developments, 2021, Redox Biology (authored by Irwin K. Cheah)
  • A Flexi-PEGDA Upconversion Implant for Wireless Brain Photodynamic Therapy, 2020, Advanced Materials (authored by Daniel Boon Loong Teh)

Barry Halliwell received the distinction of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Free radicals in biology and medicine

    Barry Halliwell;John M. C. Gutteridge

  • Role of free radicals and catalytic metal ions in human disease: an overview.

    Barry Halliwell;John M.C. Gutteridge

  • OXYGEN TOXICITY, OXYGEN RADICALS, TRANSITION METALS AND DISEASE

    Unknown

  • FREE RADICALS, ANTIOXIDANTS AND HUMAN DISEASE: CURIOSITY, CAUSE, OR CONSEQUENCE

    B Halliwell

  • Reactive Oxygen Species and the Central Nervous System

    Barry Halliwell

  • Lipid peroxidation: its mechanism, measurement, and significance.

    Barry Halliwell;Susanna Chirico

  • The deoxyribose method: a simple "test-tube" assay for determination of rate constants for reactions of hydroxyl radicals.

    Barry Halliwell;John M.C. Gutteridge;Okezie I. Aruoma

  • FREE RADICALS, ANTIOXIDANTS, AND HUMAN DISEASE: WHERE ARE WE NOW?

    Barry Halliwell;John M.C. Gutteridge;Carroll E. Cross

  • The presence of glutathione and glutathione reductase in chloroplasts: A proposed role in ascorbic acid metabolism.

    Christine H. Foyer;Barry Halliwell

  • Measuring reactive species and oxidative damage in vivo and in cell culture: how should you do it and what do the results mean?

    Barry Halliwell;Matthew Whiteman

  • Oxidative stress and neurodegeneration: where are we now?

    Barry Halliwell

  • Reactive Species and Antioxidants. Redox Biology Is a Fundamental Theme of Aerobic Life

    Barry Halliwell

  • Damage to DNA by reactive oxygen and nitrogen species: role in inflammatory disease and progression to cancer.

    Helen Wiseman;Barry Halliwell

  • Reactive oxygen species in living systems: source, biochemistry, and role in human disease.

    Barry Halliwell

  • Antioxidants in human health and disease

    Barry Halliwell

  • Oxygen free radicals and iron in relation to biology and medicine: some problems and concepts.

    Barry Halliwell;John M.C. Gutteridge

  • Oxygen Radicals and Human Disease

    Carroll E. Cross;Barry Halliwell;Edward T. Borish;William A. Pryor

  • The antioxidant action of N-acetylcysteine: its reaction with hydrogen peroxide, hydroxyl radical, superoxide, and hypochlorous acid.

    Okezie I. Aruoma;Barry Halliwell;Brigid M. Hoey;John Butler

  • DNA damage by oxygen-derived species Its mechanism and measurement in mammalian systems

    Barry Halliwell;Okezie I. Aruoma

  • Role of free radicals in the neurodegenerative diseases: therapeutic implications for antioxidant treatment.

    Barry Halliwell

Frequent Co-Authors

Okezie I. Aruoma
Okezie I. Aruoma Touro College
John M.C. Gutteridge
John M.C. Gutteridge National Institute for Biological Standards and Control
Matthew Whiteman
Matthew Whiteman University of Exeter
Carroll E. Cross
Carroll E. Cross University of California, Davis
Peter Jenner
Peter Jenner King's College London
Catherine Rice-Evans
Catherine Rice-Evans King's College London
Jeremy P. E. Spencer
Jeremy P. E. Spencer University of Reading
Markus R. Wenk
Markus R. Wenk Hamad bin Khalifa University
Miral Dizdaroglu
Miral Dizdaroglu National Institute of Standards and Technology
Philip K. Moore
Philip K. Moore National University of Singapore

If you think any of the details on this page are incorrect, let us know.

Report an issue

We appreciate your kind effort to assist us to improve this page, it would be helpful providing us with as much detail as possible in the text box below:

Best Scientists Citing Barry Halliwell

Trending Scientists