MRC & Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma

Contact Details

Centre for Health Sciences

Barts and the London School of Medicine

Abernethy Building

2 Newark Street

London

E1 2AT

Telephone

020 7882 2480

Email

s.shaheen@qmul.ac.uk

Profile

Seif Shaheen recently completed an Asthma UK Senior Research Fellowship and is principal investigator in a collaborative programme of research focused on asthma aetiology. The broad aim of this research is, through observational epidemiology and randomised controlled trials, to identify causes of asthma which are amenable to intervention, in order to devise strategies for primary and secondary prevention.
His recent research has focused on how the prenatal environment might influence the development of asthma and atopy. He is particularly interested in how environmental influences such as diet, throughout the lifecourse, interact with genes to influence the aetiology of asthma, and in the role of epigenetics. In 2000 he proposed that frequent paracetamol use may be a risk factor for asthma, a link which has since been confirmed in a number of epidemiological studies.

MRC & Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma

Last modified: 04 December 2009 11:38