MRC & Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma

Contact Details

Division of Asthma, Allergy and Lung Biology

Kings College London

School of Medicine

Guys Hospital

London SE1 9RT

Telephone

020 7188 1943

Email

tak.lee@kcl.ac.uk

Profile

Professor Tak Lee is Director of the MRC and Asthma UK Centre in the Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma at King’s College London and Imperial College. He is Asthma UK’s clinical Professor at KCL and a vice-President of the Charity. He is a consultant allergist to the Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust where he established a very large NHS allergy service treating both children and adults. He has had a long term interest in leukotriene biology and researches into mechanisms of severe types of asthma, including aspirin sensitive asthma. He is trying to understand why some of these patients do not respond well to treatment. He also has a programme grant from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) on pollution and respiratory health. He was appointed recently as one of the first 100 Senior Investigators of the newly created NIHR. He has published over 400 research papers on asthma and allergy and is an ISI highly cited author. The objective of his research is to inform development of new treatments and approaches to prevention. His work is guided by national health priorities and addresses key unresolved questions in asthma research for patient benefit. He was previously President of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology and also Chaired the Royal College of Physicians and Royal College of Pathologists Joint Committee for Immunology and Allergy. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2000 and elected a Fellow of King’s College in 2007.

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