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Professor Peter J Openshaw MB BS PhD FMedSci

Head of Section; Prof of Experimental Medicine
National Heart and Lung Institute

Norfolk Place
St Mary's Campus

Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 3854
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Professor Peter Openshaw

Peter Openshaw is the Director of the Centre for Respiratory Infection (CRI) at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London.  He is also Professor of Experimental Medicine and an Honorary Physician in the Department of Respiratory Medicine at the St Mary's Campus of the Imperial College NHS Trust.

He trained at Guy's Hospital, the Brompton and the Royal Postgraduate Medical School (Hammersmith).  His PhD training (with Ita Askonas FRS at the National Institute for Medical Research, 1985-1988) led to a Wellcome Senior Fellowship and the creation of the Academic Department of Respiratory Medicine at St Mary's.  The department now has three professors (Peter Openshaw, Sebastian Johnston and Ajit Lalvani) and over 60 members of staff.  It was completely refurbished in 2002-2003 (JIF award).  He was the Principal Applicant on a strategic award for a Centre in Respiratory Infection (Wellcome Trust, £3.4m, 2008-2010).

His research is on the immunology of the lung, viral lung disease, vaccination and immunopathogenesis of viral disease.  He was among the first 100 elected Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (1999).  He served on Wellcome Trust's Clinical Interest Group (1997-2003), Infection and Immunity (2002-2004) and the Tropical and Clinical Panels (2006-2008) and is now on the Immunology and Infectious Diseases panel.  He has served on many other national and international grant bodies.  He became a member of British Society for Immunology's Council in 2006 and a member of the Department of Health's Scientific Advisory Group on Pandemic Influenza in December 2007.