MRC & Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma

Contact Details

National Heart and Lung Institute

Sir Alexander Fleming Building

South Kensington Campus, Faculty of Medicine

Imperial College London

London SW7 2AZ

Telephone

020 7594 1508

Email

r.boyton@imperial.ac.uk

Profile

Dr Boyton is Head of the Lung Immunology Group at Imperial College London and Honorary Consultant Physician at the Royal Brompton Hospital, London. Dr Boyton is a Principal Investigator in the MRC & Asthma UK centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma and the Centre for Respiratory Infection funded by the Wellcome Trust. The Group has close links with clinicians and scientists at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. Biomedical Research Centre and Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust Biomedical Research Unit facilitating patient based translational studies. Dr Boyton is on the editorial board of Clinical & Experimental Immunology.
The mission of the Lung Immunology Group is to gain an understanding of the molecular interactions in T lymphocyte responses leading to respiratory disease, major goals being to elucidate pathological mechanisms and design effective and specific therapies including vaccine development. The Group has developed several TCR, lung targeted, and inducible (Cre/Lox) transgenic models to study the impact of TCR structure on T cell function including lung inflammation. We now use these models to study innate and adaptive immune mechanisms in the development and regulation of pulmonary inflammation, airway hyperreactivity and airway remodeling in infectious and allergic inflammation.

MRC & Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma

Last modified: 04 December 2009 11:38