MRC & Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma

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Department of Respiratory Medicine

Wright Fleming Institute of Infection and Immunity

St. Mary's Campus, Paddington

Imperial College London

London W2 1PG

Telephone

020 7594 3854

Email

p.openshaw@imperial.ac.uk

Profile

Peter Openshaw works on viral inflammation of the lung and has an international reputation in respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and influenza research. His current research is focussed on the delayed effects of RSV infection, viral persistence, neonatal immunology and immunoregulation.
He became the founding Director of the Centre for Respiratory Infection in 2008, bringing together many of Imperial College's established leaders and groups with expertise in molecular, cellular, animal and human studies of respiratory infections. He is a member of the Clinical Information Network (Flu-CIN), a national Department of Health funded study of over 1000 patients admitted to UK hospitals with swine flu. He also leads a UK-wide consortium of 45 co-investigators in 8 cities working to understand variations in disease severity in hospitalised patients with influenza, under the banner of MOSAIC (mechanisms of severe acute influenza consortium). He currently holds grants totalling over £10m.
He has advised the Department of Health as a member of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza panel and is a member of the Clinical Countermeasures Subgroup. He serves on the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) subgroup on influenza and RSV prophylaxis (2009) and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Group in Emergencies (SAGE), chaired by the Chief Government Scientist, which advised the UK government on pandemic H1N1 influenza. He was a member of the Academy of Medical Sciences Vaccines Working Group.

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