Investigator Information
The following members of Imperial College London are Principal Investigators in the Centre for Respiratory Infection.
| Director of the Centre for Respiratory Infection and Professor of Experimental Medicine. He is currently in his 4th 5 year programme of continuous funding from the Wellcome Trust and is an expert in respiratory viral infections. |
Assistant Director of the Centre, Professor Lalvani has been a Wellcome Clinical Senior Research Fellow in since 2001 and was recently recruited from Oxford to the Chair of Infectious Diseases. His research outputs have shaped TB control policy internationally and provided fundamental insights into immunity to intracellular pathogens and the action of TB vaccines. | |
Professor of Respiratory Cell & Molecular Biology with a research focus on COPD and exacerbations. | |
Professor of Virology, recently appointed from Reading. She is an expert in influenza virology and reverse genetics of RNA viruses. | |
Head of Respiratory Medicine at Imperial College London and an international leader in asthma and COPD research. He is the most highly cited researcher in respiratory medicine in the world over the last 20 years. | |
Professor and Head of the Respiratory Pharmacology. She works on animal models of asthma and COPD, and has industrial experience. | |
Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant with an interest in bacterial, fungal and atypical mycobacterial infections of the lung. She uses inducible transgenic mice to investigate innate and adaptive lung immunity. | |
Professor of Genetics and Genomic Medicine. He is coordinator of the EU GABRIEL consortium in genetics of asthma / atopic dermatitis. Developing culture-free sequencing methods to study bacterial respiratory flora. | |
Professor of Inflammatory Disease. She is making great advances in the immune modulation of respiratory infections, including therapeutic strategies prevent the "cytokine storm" associated with influenza. | |
Professor of Adult Respiratory Medicine. He has successfully led the establishment of the human rhinovirus challenge model and a novel experimental rhinovirus model in mice. | |
Wellcome Intermediate Clinical Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Paediatric Infectious Diseases. She developed a unique whole blood assay for assessment of mycobacterial immune responses and novel TB-vaccine candidates and leads an international research program for children with TB and TB/HIV co-infections. | |
Dr Onn Min Kon | Consultant Respiratory Physician, Imperial College Healthcare and Honorary SL in Respiratory Medicine. He is experienced in clinical trials in airway disease (including monoclonal therapy) and is the Lead Clinician for Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust’s TB service. |
Professor of Paediatrics and International Child Health. He has achieved many remarkable firsts in the biology/ management of acutely sick children and is often sent patients with overwhelming infections from other centres. | |
Wellcome Senior Fellow in Basic Biomedical Sciences and Professor in Respiratory Immunology. She is an expert in mouse models of allergic airways disease, working on effect of lung infections on allergen-induced lung function and airway remodelling. | |
Professor in Molecular Genetics. She works with Professor Cookson investigating the epithelial response to bacterial infection and flora using global gene expression techniques. | |
Professor and Head of the Department of Paediatrics is a world leader in the foetal origins of asthma and allergic disorders. He is Head of Research for the Women and Children's Clinical Programme Group in the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. He was previously a PI at the Welcome Trust Clinical Research Facility in Southampton. | |
Head of the Section of Leukocyte Biology. His expertise is in inflammatory mechanisms and chemokine-driven leukocyte recruitment. |
