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Research income: £45m over the last five years.
Current number of academic staff: 24 faculty members.
Current number of research students: PhD 35; MD 10.
Recent publications
Asthma, Allergy & Lung Biology (AALB) (Research Division)
|MPhil/PhD, MD(Res), option of joint PhD with HKU
|Part Time, Full Time
RESEARCH PROFILE
2008 RAE Result: The Division was returned along with Hepatology and Imaging Sciences; 75% of research activity was rated as world leading or internationally excellent. 100% of research environment was considered world beating and 100% of esteem indicators were internationally excellent.Research income: £45m over the last five years.
Current number of academic staff: 24 faculty members.
Current number of research students: PhD 35; MD 10.
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.
- IgE structure, function and regulation
- Airway remodelling and signal transduction pathways
- Pathobiology of airway smooth muscle in asthmatics therapy
- Prevention of allergy, asthma and chronic respiratory morbidity.
- 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
- Joint PhDs are available with Hong Kong University.
KEY FACTS
Head of group/division
Professor Tariq Sethi
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 King's Denmark Hill Campus, dependent upon where supervisor is based.
Student destinations
85 per cent of AALB nonclinical 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. 25 per cent of clinical postgraduate trainees have re-joined the SpR scheme to complete clinical training; 75 per cent 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 2012
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