Peter John Barnes#
| Membership Number: | 3214 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www1.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/people/p.j.barnes.html |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-5122-4018 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Professor of Thoracic Medicine, National Heart & Lung Institute, London; Head of Respiratory Medicine, Imperial College London
- Honorary Consultant Physician, Royal Brompton Hospital, London
- 1985-1987: Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, Cardiothoracic Institute, University of London
- 1982-1985: Consultant Physician and Senior Lecturer, Hammersmith Hospital, London.
- 1981-1982 MRC Travelling Fellowship, Cardiovascular Research Institute, San Francisco, USA
- 1979-1982: Senior Registrar (General and Respiratory Medicine), Hammersmith Hospital, London
- 1978-1979: MRC Research Fellow, Dept of Clinical Pharmacology, Hammersmith Hospital London
- 1975-1978: Medical Registrar (General Medicine), University College Hospital, London
- 1975: Senior House Office (Neurology), National Hospital, London
- 1974: Senior House Office (Thoracic Medicine), Brompton Hospital, London
- 1972-1973: House Physician/Surgeon, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford
Fields of Scholarship
- Respiratory Pharmacology: molecular mechanisms of corticosteroids and bronchodilators
- Respiratory Medicine: specifically asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Mediators of inflammation, oxidative stress in lung disease
- Inflammatory mechanisms: transcriptional control of inflammatory genes, transcription factors, chromatin remodell
- Mechanisms of corticosteroid resistance
- Inflammatory biomarkers in breath
Honours and Awards
- 2011: President Elect, European Respiratory Society
- 2011: Fellow of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, UK
- 2010: Honorary MD, Leuven University, Belgium
- 2009: Senior Investigator, National Institute of Health Research, UK
- 2009: Croonian Lecture, Royal College of Physicians, London
- 2008: British Thoracic Society Gold Medal
- 2007: European Respiratory Society Presidential Award,
- 2007: Fellow of Royal Society (first respiratory scientist for >150 years)
- 2006: Honorary MD, University of Tampere, Finland
- 2002: American College of Chest Physicians: College Medallist
- 2000: Honorary MD, University of Athens, Greece
- 1998: Fellow of Academy of Medical Science (Founding Fellow)
- 1999: Sadoul Lecture, European Respiratory Society (most prestigious lecture of society)
- 1997: Honorary MD, University of Ferrara, Italy
- 1997: William Withering Lecture, Royal College of Physicians, London
- 1996: Amberson Lecture, American Thoracic Society (most prestigious lecture of society)
- 1994: Leon Goldberg Prize, University of Chicago
- 1990: Linacre Medal, Royal College of Physicians, London
