Stephen Townley Holgate#
| Membership Number: | 3509 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.southampton.ac.uk/medicine/about/staff/sth.page |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1897 - present Medical Research Council Clinical Research Professor of Immunopharmacology and Honorary Consultant Physician, Southampton University and Foundation NHS Trust
- Currently also: Chair of Main Panel A (Biomedical & Life Sciences) for REF2014, the UK Government's research excellence framework for evaluating all university-based research in the UK
- 1971 - 1972 House Physician, Charing Cross Hospital, London
- 1972 - 1973 Senior House Officer (Neurology), National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, London
- 1973 - 1974 Senior House Officer Respiratory Medicine & Cardiology, Brompton Hospital, London
- 1974 - 1975 Registrar (General Medicine), General Infirmary, Salisbury & Southampton General Hospital
- 1975 - 1980 Lecturer and Honorary Senior Registrar in Medicine, Southampton General & Western Hospitals
- 1978 - 1980 MRC and Wellcome Trust Overseas Research Fellow, Harvard University, Boston, USA
- 1975 - 1980 Lecturer in Medicine and Honorary Senior Registrar
- 1980 - 1986 Senior Lecturer, Reader then Professor of Medicine and Hon Consultant Physician
Fields of Scholarship
- Allergology
- Asthma
- Clinical immunology
- Immunopharmacology
- Medicine
- Lung function
- Translational medicine
- Environmental epidemiology
- Genetics
- Pollution
Honours and Awards
- 1995 Rhône-Poulenc Rorer World Health Award ($20,000)
- 1997 Doctorate Hon Causa, University of Ferrara, Italy
- 1998 Doctorate Hon Causa, Jallegonian University, Krakow, Poland
- 1998 Foundation Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci)
- 1999 King Faisal International Prize in Medicine
- 2001 Overseas Member, Polish Academy of Sciences
- 2001 ISI Most Highly Cited Researcher for Publications 1980-2001
- 2002 Highly Cited Researcher (Original Member, Highly Cited Researchers database, ISI)
- 2003 Sir William Osler Lecture, Association of Physicians of GB and Ireland (and then, Honorary Membership)
- 2003 Ellison-Cliffe Medal, Royal Society of Medicine
- 2004 Health and Life Sciences Gold Medal, Rijksuniversity, Gent, Belgium
- 2011 Commander of the Order of the British Empire, CBE (Queen’s New Year Honours List) for contributions to clinical science
- 2012 Doctorate Hon Causa, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
- 2013 K Frank Austen Visiting Professor, Harvard University, US
