Dr Nathan W Bartlett

Dr Nathan Bartlett is Lecturer in Respiratory Medicine within the Respiratory Infections section, National Heart and Lung Institute (NHLI), Imperial College London.

Following his award of PhD, Dr Nathan Bartlett undertook a 5 year postdoctoral research position with Professor Geoffrey Smith - first at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, then in the Department of Virology, Imperial College London. From studies of poxvirus-encoded virulence factors, he produced several first author papers in the Journal of General Virology and contributed to two Journal of Experimental Medicine publications.

Looking to move into a human disease/medicine-driven field, Dr Bartlett undertook a postdoctoral position in the Department of Respiratory Medicine within NHLI.

Since joining the Institute, Dr Bartlett has been a coapplicant on several successful grants and since his lecturer appointment was successful as a Principal Investigator in achieving an MRC project grant to study the role of IL-25 in asthma exacerbations. He authored two Nature Medicine papers of which he was first author on Bartlett et al, Nat Med 2008, the world's first mouse rhinovirus infection model which received extensive media coverage (TV, radio and newspaper). Dr Bartlett was interviewed on radio by BBC World and ABC Canberra, Australia and has been highlighted by Asthma UK as an important researcher in their magazine.  Dr Barlett co-authored the Rhinovirus chapter (with Professor Sebastian Johnston) for the Encylopaedia of Virology (Elsevier).

Finally, Dr Bartlett is extensively involved in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and is one of the NHLI Postgraduate Tutor for St Mary's Campus and as such member of the NHLI Higher Degrees Committee.