Kian Fan Chung - Curriculum Vitae#
CURRENT APPOINTMENTS
- Professor of Respiratory Medicine & Head of Experimental Medicine Studies
- National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London.
- Consultant Physician, Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust, London
QUALIFICATIONS
- 2001 DSc Univ London
- 1992 Fellow Royal College of Physicians, London
- 1983 MD Univ London
- 1977 MRCP (UK), Royal College of Physicians
- 1975 MBBS Middlesex Hospital Medical School, University of London
VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS & AWARDS
- 2018 - 2023 Visiting Professor, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan
- 2014 - 2022 Visiting Professor, Guangzhou Medical School & Respiratory Institute, China
- 2017 - 2021 Visiting Professor, Lee Kong Chian /Nanyang Tech University, Singapore
- 2014 Fellow of the European Respiratory Society
- 2014 Delivered Sadoul Lecture at European Respiratory Society Congress
- 2010 - present Senior Investigator, UK National Institute for Health Research
- 1983 - 1984 Dorothy Temple Cross Visiting Scientist, MRC (UK)
EDITORIAL BOARDS
- 2007 - present Editorial Board of European Journal of Pharmacology, Lancet Respiratory Medicine, Respirology, Allergy,
- 2021 - present Editorial Board of Chinese Medical Journal Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
- 2017 - 2020 Associate Editor, Frontiers in Medicine & Clin Respir Disease
- 2015 - present Co-editor, Journal Thoracic Disease
CURRENT FUNDING
- 2020 - 2023 GSK. Co-PI. Single cell sequencing analysis of severe eosinophilic asthma: role of Mepolizumab. £1.5m.
- 2019 - 2023 MRC. PI. Korea-UK PRISM: Establishing Precision Medicine in severe asthma. £2.5m.
- 2019 - 2022 EPSRC. Co-PI. Health assessment across biological length scales for personal pollution exposure and its mitigation (INHALE). £2.9m.
- 2018 - 2021 MRC Co-PI. (PI Andrew Tobin, Glasgow Univ). Functional Modes of Action and Targeting Free Fatty Acid and Receptor FFA4 in Lung. £300K.
- 2016 - 2021 National Environmental Research Council /India collaboration: DAPHNE: Delhi air pollution and health effects. £1.6m
PUBLICATIONS
- Author of more than 700 original publications in peer-reviewed scientific and medical journals.
- Google h-index of 143 with 84,910 citations(Source: Google Scholar; checked 07/02/2022).
- Mentioned within the top 2% of world scientist (ranked 1396th) and top 2% of respiratory scientist (ranked 5th) based on impact of publications by Stanford University in 2021.