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Asthma, Allergy & Lung Biology (AALB) (Research Division)
|MPhil/PhD, MD(Res)
|Part Time, Full Time
RESEARCH PROFILE
- 2008 RAE Result: The Division was returned along with Hepatology and Imaging Sciences; 75 per cent of research activity was rated as world leading or internationally excellent. 100 per cent of research environment was considered world beating and 100 per cent of esteem indicators were internationally excellent.
- Research income: £45m over the last five years.
- Current number of academic staff: 38 faculty members.
- Current number of research students: PhD 28; MD 4.
- Recent publications
- Leukotriene-receptor expression on nasal mucosal inflammatory cells in aspirin-sensitive rhinosinusitis.
- The crystal structure of the complete Fc region of IgE reveals an acutely bent antibody conformation.
- Factors associated with the development of peanut allergy in childhood.
- Community pulmonary rehabilitation after hospitalisation for acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: randomised controlled study.
- Reversing the defective induction of IL-10 secreting T regulatory cells in glucocorticoid resistant asthma.
- Current research projects
- Prevention of Allergy, Asthma & Chronic Respiratory Morbidity;
- IgE Structure, Function & Regulation;
- Immune Mechanisms of Asthma (Cellular/Molecular);
- Therapy including Immunomodulation;
- Respiratory Physiology and Airways Remodelling;
- Adult Clinical Respiratory Physiology;
- Paediatric Clinical Respiratory Physiology;
- Lung Cancer;
- Environmental Impact of Respiratory Health (Pollution, Vitamin D).
- Partner organisations
- Department of Asthma Allergy & Respiratory Science;
- Department of Paediatrics, Department of Paediatric Allergy;
- Randall Division of Cell & Molecular Biophysics;
- MRC & Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma.
KEY FACTS
Head of group/division
Professor Tariq Sethi
Awarding institution
King's College London
Duration
Expected to be three years FT or up to six years PT. Registration normally October, although students may commence at any time.
Location
Guy's Campus, St Thomas' Campus or Denmark Hill Campus, dependent upon where supervisor is based.
Student destinations
Eighty five per cent of AALB non-clinical PhD graduates continue in postdoctoral positions in the UK and overseas (eg Toronto Children's Hospital; Harvard; University of Sydney; Leiden University Medical Centre; Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory); others joined industry and one became a science teacher. Seventy five per cent of clinical postgraduate trainees have become NHS consultants in teaching hospitals with a research interest or continued in academic medicine (four are professors at universities overseas).
Year of entry 2013
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