Christopher Garland is professor of vascular pharmacology at Oxford University and a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. He is a past Vice-President of the British Pharmacological Society and council member of the Royal Society of Biology, and member of grant panels for the Wellcome Trust, British Heart Foundation and the Medical Research Council. 

In 2009, he was awarded the BPS JR Vane Medal and in 2010 a Royal Society-Wolfson Fellowship. He is an Honorary Fellow of the British Pharmacological Society. His research investigates the physiology and pharmacology of the microcirculation, with a particular focus on endothelium-dependent hyperpolarisation (EDH) where his seminal discoveries have helped shape the field.