MRC & Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma

Contact Details

Airways Disease Section, Rm 303, Guy Scadding Building

National Heart & Lung Institute

Imperial College London, Dovehouse Street

London

SW3 6LY

Telephone

020 7351 8183

Email

Profile

Professor Ian Adcock is Professor and Group Head within the Airways Disease Section of the National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London. Professor Adcock is on the Editorial Board of several Journals in the areas of respiratory disease and pharmacology, has served on Grant panels for Asthma UK, MRC and NIH and was formally a member of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) Council. He is currently Head of the Airway Pharmacology and Treatment Section within the ERS. Professor Adcock has authored or co-authored more than 230 Journal articles and edited or co-edited 4 books
Dr Adcock’s main interests lie in the area of regulation of airway inflammation in asthma and COPD by glucocorticoids. This involves a translational approach involving a range of cell and molecular techniques in cell lines and primary cells through animal models of disease into clinical studies. Dr Adcock has had a long-term interest in why glucocorticoids are ineffective in many patients with severe asthma and in patients with COPD. More recently, this work has expanded into studying how epigenetic modifications can affect glucocorticoid function and asthma susceptibility.

MRC & Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma

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