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Emeritus Professor A Barry Kay FMedSci FRSE
Senior Research Investigator
National Heart & Lung Institute
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Professor (Emeritus) A Barry Kay
Anthony Barrington ("Barry") Kay is Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Investigator, Imperial College, and Honorary Consultant Physician, Royal Brompton Hospital, and is presently located in the Sir Alexander Fleming Building, South Kensington Campus (Leukocyte Biology Section). From 1980 to 2004 he was Head of the Department of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College with responsibility for the "Brompton Allergy Clinic".
Professor Kay's main research interest is the role of eosinophils and T cells in allergy and asthma; work which involves molecular pathology techniques and provoked clinical models of allergy and asthma together with novel patient-based therapeutic interventions. Professor Kay also co-founded an Imperial College, clinical-stage specialty biopharmaceutical spin-out company (www.circassia.co.uk) focused on developing peptide- based vaccines for the treatment of allergy and autoimmune disease.
Professor Kay was an MRC Programme Grant holder for over 20 years and remains Principal Investigator in the recently awarded joint (Imperial/KCL) MRC Centre on "Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma". In 2006/2007 he was Specialist Advisor to a House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee enquiry on "Allergy". He has served on numerous College committees including being the NHLI representative of the Academic Staff Assembly, Chairman of the Health and Safety Committee, Medical constituency representative on the Court of Imperial College and member of the Council of Imperial College London (Medical Constituency) (2002-2005). Professor Kay is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Past-President of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology, and former President of the European Academy of Allergology and Clinical Immunology.
In 1999 the ISI Web of Science named Barry Kay as one of the "Citation Superstars of the UK" when he ranked seventh highest cited scientist in Biomedical Sciences (total citations to papers published and cited between 1990 and 1999). In 2000 he was one of the world's top 250 most highly cited researchers (ISI 2000). Professor Kay was co-editor of Clinical and Experimental Allergy, the official journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology from 1984 to the end of 2007, and is co-editor of Clinical and Experimental Allergy Reviews. He is a co-author of over 500 research papers, review articles and book chapters and has edited several books including a major two-volume textbook entitled "Allergy and Allergic Diseases" the second edition of which will be published mid-2008.
