Trust researchers with an active programme in asthma or allergy (who work closely with colleagues in paediatrics) are:
Professor Peter Barnes: mechanisms and treatment of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, exhaled biomarkers of airway disease, corticosteroid resistance mechanisms and treatment.
Professor Fan Chung: treatments for severe asthma, cough and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; role of lung inflammation and scarring in asthma and chronic obstructive airways disease; environmental pollution in asthma and COPD.
Professor Paul Cullinan: the aetiology and distribution of environmentally and occupationally induced asthma, COPD and other respiratory diseases; traffic pollution and asthma; the impact of environmental and industrial disasters on respiratory health; early life determinants of asthma.
Professor Steve Durham: subcutaneous allergen immunotherapy and the development of novel allergen: specific approaches; the epidemiology of rhinitis and the development of evidence-based guidelines for management of rhinitis, sinusitis and the practice of immunotherapy.
Dr Andrew Menzies-Gow: evaluation of novel therapies for severe asthma; eosinophilic lung disease.
Dr Omar Usmani: inhaled drug delivery technologies, lung imaging and small airways physiology in asthma and COPD; cough pharmacology and the molecular biology of inhaled therapeutic drugs.
Please use the quick links to access individual researchers’ projects and publications.
Read more about some of the Trust’s research projects in asthma and allergy.
