Kian Fan Chung#
| Membership Number: | 5972 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/f.chung |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-7101-1426 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1996 - present Professor of Respiratory Medicine, National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London, UK
- 2002 - present Head of Experimental Studies Medicine, National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London, UK
- 1987 - present Honorary Consultant Respiratory Physician, Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust, London, UK
- 2007 - 2019 Principal Investigator of Asthma UK-MRC Asthma Centre, Kings and Imperial Colleges
- 2010 - 2018 Leader of Asthma Consortium, NIHR Biomedical Research Unit, Royal Brompton Hospital, UK
- 1986 - 1996 Senior Lecturer, then Reader in Thoracic Medicine, National Heart & Lung Institute
- 1983 - 1985 MRC Visiting Scientist, Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, USA
- 1981 - 1983 Senior Registrar & Lecturer in Medicine, Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, University of London
- 1980 Chief Resident in Internal Medicine, Geneva Cantonal University Hospital, Switzerland.
- 1975 - 1979 Intern & Resident Medicine, Oxford Radcliffe Infirmary, Middlesex & Hammersmith Hospitals, London
Fields of Scholarship
- Corticosteroid insensitivity in severe asthma
- Impact and mechanisms of environmental pollution on the respiratory system
- Mitochondrial and oxidant airway injury by fine and ultrafine particles
- Delineation of cough hypersensitivity syndrome
- Airway smooth muscle biology in asthma
- Clinical and molecular phenotyping of asthma
- Precision medicine for severe asthma
Honours and Awards
- 2020 - present Emeritus Senior Investigator of National Institute for Health Research
- 2016 - 2020 Senior Investigator of National Institute for Health Research, National Health Service, UK
- 2014 Delivered Sadoul Lecture of the European Respiratory Society
- 2014 Elected Fellow of the European Respiratory Society
- 2012 Editorial Board Member of Lancet Respiratory Medicine
- 2012 - 2014 Co-chair of American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society Severe Asthma Guidelines
- 2007 - present Editorial Board Member of European Journal of Pharmacology
- 2006 - 2009 Member of Council of British Thoracic Society, UK
- 2001 Doctor of Science (Medicine), University of London
- 1999 - 2003 Editorial Board Member of Journal European Society Allergy Clinical Immunology (Allergy)
- 1998 - 2003 Head of Allergy & Clinical immunology Assembly, European Respiratory Society
- 1996 - 2005 Editorial Board Member of American Journal Respiratory Critical Care Medicine
- 1995 - 1999 Editorial Board Member and Sub-editor of European Respiratory Journal
- 1983 - 1985 Dorothy Temple Cross Travelling Scientist, Medical Research Council, UK
- 1975 Thomas Meyerstein Scholar & Harold Boldero Scholar in Medicine, Middlesex Hospital Medical School, London
