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Professor
Peter Openshaw
Professor of Experimental Medicine, Imperial College London.
Director
of the Centre for Respiratory Infections Research Peter Openshaw is the
Director of the Centre for Respiratory Infections (CRI) at Imperial College London,
Head of the Section of Respiratory Infections of the National Heart and Lung Institute,
Professor of Experimental Medicine and 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) lead to a Wellcome Senior Fellowship and the
creation of the Academic Department of Respiratory Medicine at St Mary's in 1988.
The department now has three professors (Peter Openshaw, Sebastian Johnston and
Ajit Lalvani) and over 60 members of staff. The department was completely refurbished
in 2002-3 (JIF award). He was the principal applicant on a strategic award for
a Centre in Respiratory Infections (Wellcome Trust, £3.4m, 2008-2010). The
CRI will launch on the 2nd June 2008 and is focused on: (1) respiratory viral
epidemics (pandemic flu etc), (2) common colds, (3) tuberculosis and (4) bacterial
pneumonias. 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 award 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. | |
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