Guy Joos#
| Membership Number: | 4843 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | BELGIUM |
| Homepage(s): | https://telefoonboek.ugent.be/en/people/801000462021 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017 - present Director of Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- 2014 - 2018 Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- 2004 - present Head of Department Respiratory Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
- 1999 - present Full Professor at Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Fields of Scholarship
- Innate and adaptive immunity in the airways
- Airway pharmacology
- Health effects of air pollution
- Respiratory medicine
- Preclinical and clinical research in obstructive airway diseases (Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease)
- Bronchial provocation
Honours and Awards
- 2O14 Fellow of European Respiratory Society (FERS)
- 2012 Honorary Member of Lithuanian Society of Pulmonology and Allergy
- 2004 Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium, Prize Dr G Schamelhout-Koettlitz, for the work "Indirect bronchial provocation tests: a new and specific group of bronchial provocation tests for asthma"
- 1995 Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium, Heymans award for Pharmacology, for the period 1992-1993, for the work "The bronchoconstrictor effect of tachykinins in the rat"
- 1988 Belgian Thoracic Society - 7th Prize Boehringer Ingelheim Pulmonology, awarded for the PhD thesis "The role of neuropeptides in asthma".
