| Director |
| Prof Paul Elliott | Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health | Environmental and spatial epidemiology, small-area health statistics, risk factors
for cardiovascular disease and cancers, biomarkers of disease, genetic epidemiology | p.elliott@imperial.ac.uk -
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| Deputy Director |
| Prof Frank Kelly | Professor of Environmental Health, Pharmaceutical Science Division, Kings College London | Air pollution, respiratory disease, lung function and air pollution-induced lung injury; exposure to particulate pollution, health effects of exposure to traffic | frank.kelly@kcl.ac.uk -
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| Principal Investigators |
| Prof Ross Anderson | Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, jointly at St George’s, University of London and King’s College London
| Asthma, air pollution, public health, respiratory disease | r.anderson@sgul.ac.uk -
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| Dr Richard Atkinson | Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology, St George's, University of London | Statistical methods in epidemiology, air pollution epidemiology, aeroallergens | atkinson@sgul.ac.uk -
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| Dr Sean Beevers | Senior Lecturer in Air Quality Modelling, Modelling Manager Environmental Research Group, King’s College London | Air quality modelling, urban air pollution, traffic-related emissions, transport and air quality policy decision making | sean.beevers@kcl.ac.uk -
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| Prof Nicky Best | Professor of Statistics and Epidemiology, Imperial College London | Biostatistics, hierarchical statistical modelling, Bayesian analysis, WinBUGS | n.best@imperial.ac.uk -
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| Prof Alan Boobis | Professor of Biochemical Pharmacology, Imperial College London
Department of Medicine
| Pharmacology, mechanistic toxicology, drug metabolism, biomarkers, proteomics, environmental hazards | a.boobis@imperial.ac.uk -
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| Prof Peter Burney | Professor of Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health, Respiratory Science Sub Division, NHLI
| Epidemiology of respiratory disease and allergic disease, asthma; food allergies; chronic respiratory disease | p.burney@imperial.ac.uk -
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| Dr David Carslaw | Principal Scientist in Air Quality Science, Science Policy Group, King’s College London | Urban air quality, traffic pollution | david.carslaw@kcl.ac.uk -
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| Prof Fan Chung | Professor of Respiratory Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute
| Mechanistic research of airway inflammation and Oxidative stress in relation to asthma, COPD and emphysema | f.chung@imperial.ac.uk -
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| Prof William Cookson | Professor of Respiratory Genetics at Imperial College London; Associate Head of NHLI and Campus Dean, Royal Brompton Campus | Genetic and environmental causes of asthma | w.cookson@imperial.ac.uk -
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| Prof Paul Cullinan | Professor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute | Asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, effects of traffic exposure, occupational diseases, respiratory disease | p.cullinan@imperial.ac.uk -
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| Dr Gary Fuller | Senior Lecturer in Air Quality Measurement, Monitoring Manager Environmental Research Group, King’s College London | Air quality modelling, urban air pollution, traffic-related emissions, transport and air quality policy decision making | gary.fuller@kcl.ac.uk -
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| Professor Majid Ezzati | Professor of Global and Environmental Health School of Public Health, Imperial College London | Energy, air pollution, and health in developing countries; major health risk factors and their role in current and future disease burden | majid.ezzati@imperial.ac.uk -
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| Dr Anna Hansell | Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow in Epidemiology, Acting Assistant Director of SAHSU, Imperial College London | Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, effects of noise and air pollution on mortality and morbidity, occupational lung disease | a.hansell@imperial.ac.uk -
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| Prof Elaine Holmes | Professor of Chemical Biology, Biomolecular Medicine, Dept Surgery & Cancer, Imperial College London | Characterisation of tissue-specific drug toxicity via NMR spectroscopy and pattern recognition techniques, MAS NMR spectroscopic methods for defining biomarkers of toxicity, NMR and pattern recognition investigations into biochemical aspects of renal disease, chemometric analysis of spectroscopic data | elaine.holmes@imperial.ac.uk -
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| Dr Debbie Jarvis | Reader in Public Health, National Heart and Lung Institute | Allergic diseases, asthma, occupational exposures, respiratory diseases | d.jarvis@imperial.ac.uk -
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| Prof Jeremy Nicholson | Professor of Biological Chemistry, Imperial College London, Biomolecular Medicine, Dept Surgery and Cancer | Use of mass and NMR spectroscopy to study drug metabolism, molecular physio-chemical processes in metabolism, pattern recognition and computational chemistry in drug design and diagnostics, systems biology | j.nicholson@imperial.ac.uk -
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| Prof Sylvia Richardson | Professor of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London | Bayesian statistics, hierarchical statistical modelling, statistical genomics, gene environment interactions, spatial statistics, incorporating uncertainty and measurement error in risk estimation of health effects, stochastic algorithms | sylvia.richardson@imperial.ac.uk -
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| Dr Lesley Rushton | Principal Research Fellow in Occupational Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London | Exposure assessment in environmental epidemiology, surveillance of environmental causes of ill-health, cancers and the workplace | l.rushton@imperial.ac.uk -
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| Prof Terry Tetley | Professor of Lung Cell Biology, Respiratory Science Sub Division, NHLI | Lung cell biology, mechanisms of cigarette smoke induced inflammation, particulate air pollution and cardio-respiratory morbidity/mortality, proteolytic mechanisms of inflammation | t.tetley@imperial.ac.uk -
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| Dr Stephen Sturtzenbaum | Senior Lecturer in Molecular Toxicology, Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, King’s College London | Research interests: ecotoxicogenomics, molecular mechanisms of metal homeostasis in invertebrates | stephen.sturzenbaum@kcl.ac.uk -
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| Dr Mireille Toledano | Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology, Imperial College London | Health effects of mobile phones, chlorination by-products and adverse birth outcomes, epidemiology of cholangiocarcinoma | m.toledano@imperial.ac.uk -
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| Prof Paolo Vineis | Professor of Environmental Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London | Molecular epidemiology, gene-environment interactions, biomarkers of disease, epidemiological research on climate change, genetic susceptibility to cancer, carcinogenesis | p.vineis@imperial.ac.uk -
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| Prof Martin Williams | Professor in Air Quality Research, Environmental Research Group, King’s College London | Impact of climate change on future air quality, development of techniques for analysis of air quality monitoring data, evaluation of policy measures for attainment of air quality standards | martin.williams@kcl.ac.uk -
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| Centre Lecturers |
| Dr Toby Athersuch | Lecturer in Environmental Toxicology & Biomarkers, MRC-HPA Centre for Environment & Health, Imperial College London
| Application of novel molecular profiling technologies in human health and disease; biomarkers for environmental exposure assessment; nanoparticle and emerging materials toxicology; development of statistical methods for omics data integration and systems biology | toby.athersuch@imperial.ac.uk -
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| Dr Marta Blangiardo | Lecturer in Biostatistics, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London | Bayesian modelling of exposure to air pollutants, integration of air pollution concentration from different sources; Bayesian hierarchical models for combining individual
and ecological data in epidemiological studies; Bayesian measurement error models in environmental epidemiology | m.blangiardo@imperial.ac.uk
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| Dr Jake Bundy | Lecturer in Biological Chemistry, Department of Biomolecular Medicine, Imperial College London | Microbial and invertebrate metabolomics | j.bundy@imperial.ac.uk -
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| Dr Muireann Coen | Lecturer in Metabonomics and Biochemical Toxicology and MRC ITTP Fellow, Department of Biomolecular Medicine, Imperial College London | Application of metabonomic technologies to study adverse drug reactions, xenobiotic toxicity in animal models, NMR-based metabonomics as a diagnostic tool for monitoring infections | m.coen@imperial.ac.uk -
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| Dr Lea Dailey | Lecturer in Pharmaceutics, Kings College London | Pulmonary drug delivery, assessment of nanotoxicology of inhaled drug delivery vehicles and the use of nanotechnology in diagnostics | lea_ann.dailey@kcl.ac.uk
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| Dr Robert Edwards | Research Lecturer, Toxicology Unit, Imperial College London | Investigation of protein biomarkers and development of approaches for generation of protein-specific antibodies | r.edwards@imperial.ac.uk -
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| Dr John Gulliver | Lecturer in Environmental Sciences, MRC-HPA Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College London | Applications of Geographical information systems to studies of environmental and human health, air pollution monitoring, environmental modelling, exposure and health risk assessment, personal exposure monitoring | j.gulliver@imperial.ac.uk |
| Dr Nabil Hajji | Lecturer in Toxicology, Imperial College London | Epigenetics, cell death, toxicology, gene transcription, carcinogenesis,
neurodegenerative diseases, biology, ride levels, cardiac conduction, lung function, and chronic kidney disease
| n.hajji@imperial.ac.uk -
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| Dr Meinir Jones | Lecturer in Occupational Asthma, National Heart & Lung Institute | Occupational asthma and allergy, occupational lung disease | meinir.jones@imperial.ac.uk -
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| Dr Hector Keun | Lecturer in Biological Chemistry, Department of Biomolecular Medicine, Imperial College London | Metabolic profiling approaches for an improved understanding of toxicological phenomena;
application of integrated omics platforms in large-scale human epidemiological profiling studies; translational biomarkers for
cancer risk assessment,
diagnosis and treatment response; metabolic profiling as a tool in drug development and toxicological testing. | h.keun@imperial.ac.uk -
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| Dr John Molitor | Lecturer in Statistics, Imperial College London | Bayesian methods, latent variable modelling, measurement error models, spatial modelling, genetic epidemiology, Markov Chain Monte Carlo estimation methods | john.molitor@imperial.ac.uk -
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| Dr Ian Mudway | Lecturer, Pharmaceutical Science Division, Kings College London | Toxicity Profiling of Urban Particulate Matter, airway responses to diesel exhaust exposure | ian.mudway@kcl.ac.uk -
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| Dr Andrew Thorley | RCUK Lecturer in Nanotoxicology, Imperial College London | Uptake of nanoparticles by the respiratory alveolar epithelium and effects on pulmonary innate immune response, cigarette smoke and inflammatory responses of the alveolar macrophage and epithelium | andrew.thorley@imperial.ac.uk -
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| Dr Cathryn Tonne | Lecturer in Environmental Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine | Health effects of air pollution, application of toxicity-based measures of exposure to particles in epidemiological studies, socioeconomic inequalities in exposure and susceptibility to air pollution | cathryn.tonne@lshtm.ac.uk -
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| Affiliated Members |
| Prof David Briggs | Professor of Environmental Science and Health, Imperial College London | Traffic and air pollution and health, geographical information systems, assessment of environmental exposures | d.briggs@imperial.ac.uk -
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| Prof Derek Cook | Professor of Epidemiology Division of Community Health Sciences, St George’s, University of London | Primary care epidemiology, epidemiology of respiratory & cardiovascular disease, indoor and outdoor air pollution, early origins of adult disease, life-course epidemiology | d.cook@sgul.ac.uk -
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| Prof Sue Grimes | Professor in Waste Management, Imperial College London | Sustainable production and resource efficiency, value recovery from waste and low grade primary materials,
Novel methods of material recovery for reuse and recycle,
Waste management, Clean process technology, Material recovery and conversion to higher added value products | s.grimes@imperial.ac.uk -
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| Prof Stefan Grimm | Professor of Toxicology, Imperial College London | Genetic screening for the isolation of apoptosis-inducing genes, gene signalling pathways | s.grimm@imperial.ac.uk -
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| Prof Sir Brian Hoskins | Director of Grantham Institute of Climate Change, Imperial College | Environmental pollution, climate change, meteorology, risk management, development of policy on climate change | b.hoskins@imperial.ac.uk -
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| Prof Virginia Murray | Consultant Medical Toxicologist and Environmental Public Health; Centre for Radiation, Chemicals and Environmental Hazards (London), Health Protection Agency | Chemical and environmental hazard response, including flooding, cold, heat and drought, health risk assessment, extreme events and disaster management and response planning. | Virginia.Murray@hpa.org.uk -
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| Prof David Strachan | Professor of Epidemiology,Division of Community Health Sciences, St George’s, University of London | Epidemiology of asthma and allergy, genetic epidemiology, health effects of indoor and outdoor air pollution | d.strachan@sgul.ac.uk -
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