Richard Killick is Lecturer in Old Age Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King's College London. He is the principal investigator in the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing.

Richard obtained his BSc in Neurobiology and a PhD in Molecular Biology at Sussex University, where he also held post-doctoral positions. He moved on from studying how the ear works to investigating the molecular mechanisms driving Alzheimer’s disease and joined the Institute of Psychiatry in 1999 to carry out this line of research with others also working on neurodegeneration.

Richard is particularly interested in how beta-amyloid induces p53 to drive its target gene, Dickkopf1 (Dkk1), and the downstream signalling mechanisms this activates. He is currently in recipient of funding from the MRC and the ARUK.