MRC-HPA Centre for Environment & Health

Centre Members

Director
Prof Paul ElliottProfessor of Epidemiology and Public HealthEnvironmental and spatial epidemiology, small-area health statistics, risk factors for cardiovascular disease and cancers, biomarkers of disease, genetic epidemiologyp.elliott@imperial.ac.uk - member's website
Deputy Director
Prof Frank KellyProfessor of Environmental Health, Pharmaceutical Science Division, Kings College LondonAir pollution, respiratory disease, lung function and air pollution-induced lung injury; exposure to particulate pollution, health effects of exposure to trafficfrank.kelly@kcl.ac.uk - member's website
Principal Investigators
Prof Ross AndersonProfessor of Epidemiology and Public Health, jointly at St George’s, University of London and King’s College London Asthma, air pollution, public health, respiratory diseaser.anderson@sgul.ac.uk - member's website
Dr Richard AtkinsonSenior Lecturer in Epidemiology, St George's, University of LondonStatistical methods in epidemiology, air pollution epidemiology, aeroallergensatkinson@sgul.ac.uk -
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Dr Sean BeeversSenior Lecturer in Air Quality Modelling, Modelling Manager Environmental Research Group, King’s College LondonAir quality modelling, urban air pollution, traffic-related emissions, transport and air quality policy decision making sean.beevers@kcl.ac.uk - member's website
Prof Nicky BestProfessor of Statistics and Epidemiology, Imperial College LondonBiostatistics, hierarchical statistical modelling, Bayesian analysis, WinBUGSn.best@imperial.ac.uk - member's website
Prof Alan BoobisProfessor of Biochemical Pharmacology, Imperial College London
Department of Medicine
Pharmacology, mechanistic toxicology, drug metabolism, biomarkers, proteomics, environmental hazardsa.boobis@imperial.ac.uk - member's website
Prof Peter BurneyProfessor of Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health, Respiratory Science Sub Division, NHLI Epidemiology of respiratory disease and allergic disease, asthma; food allergies; chronic respiratory diseasep.burney@imperial.ac.uk - member's website
Dr David CarslawPrincipal Scientist in Air Quality Science, Science Policy Group, King’s College LondonUrban air quality, traffic pollutiondavid.carslaw@kcl.ac.uk -
Prof Fan ChungProfessor of Respiratory Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute Mechanistic research of airway inflammation and Oxidative stress in relation to asthma, COPD and emphysemaf.chung@imperial.ac.uk - member's website
Prof William CooksonProfessor of Respiratory Genetics at Imperial College London; Associate Head of NHLI and Campus Dean, Royal Brompton CampusGenetic and environmental causes of asthmaw.cookson@imperial.ac.uk - member's website
Prof Paul CullinanProfessor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, National Heart and Lung InstituteAsthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, effects of traffic exposure, occupational diseases, respiratory diseasep.cullinan@imperial.ac.uk - member's website
Dr Gary FullerSenior Lecturer in Air Quality Measurement, Monitoring Manager Environmental Research Group, King’s College LondonAir quality modelling, urban air pollution, traffic-related emissions, transport and air quality policy decision makinggary.fuller@kcl.ac.uk - member's website
Professor Majid EzzatiProfessor of Global and Environmental Health School of Public Health, Imperial College LondonEnergy, air pollution, and health in developing countries; major health risk factors and their role in current and future disease burdenmajid.ezzati@imperial.ac.uk - member's website
Dr Anna HansellWellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow in Epidemiology, Acting Assistant Director of SAHSU, Imperial College LondonChronic obstructive pulmonary disease, effects of noise and air pollution on mortality and morbidity, occupational lung diseasea.hansell@imperial.ac.uk - member's website
Prof Elaine HolmesProfessor of Chemical Biology, Biomolecular Medicine, Dept Surgery & Cancer, Imperial College LondonCharacterisation 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 dataelaine.holmes@imperial.ac.uk - member's website
Dr Debbie JarvisReader in Public Health, National Heart and Lung InstituteAllergic diseases, asthma, occupational exposures, respiratory diseasesd.jarvis@imperial.ac.uk - member's website
Prof Jeremy NicholsonProfessor of Biological Chemistry, Imperial College London, Biomolecular Medicine, Dept Surgery and CancerUse 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 biologyj.nicholson@imperial.ac.uk - member's website
Prof Sylvia RichardsonProfessor of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College LondonBayesian statistics, hierarchical statistical modelling, statistical genomics, gene environment interactions, spatial statistics, incorporating uncertainty and measurement error in risk estimation of health effects, stochastic algorithmssylvia.richardson@imperial.ac.uk - member's website
Dr Lesley RushtonPrincipal Research Fellow in Occupational Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College LondonExposure assessment in environmental epidemiology, surveillance of environmental causes of ill-health, cancers and the workplace l.rushton@imperial.ac.uk - member's website
Prof Terry TetleyProfessor of Lung Cell Biology, Respiratory Science Sub Division, NHLILung cell biology, mechanisms of cigarette smoke induced inflammation, particulate air pollution and cardio-respiratory morbidity/mortality, proteolytic mechanisms of inflammationt.tetley@imperial.ac.uk - member's website
Dr Stephen SturtzenbaumSenior Lecturer in Molecular Toxicology, Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, King’s College LondonResearch interests: ecotoxicogenomics, molecular mechanisms of metal homeostasis in invertebratesstephen.sturzenbaum@kcl.ac.uk - member's website
Dr Mireille ToledanoSenior Lecturer in Epidemiology, Imperial College LondonHealth effects of mobile phones, chlorination by-products and adverse birth outcomes, epidemiology of cholangiocarcinomam.toledano@imperial.ac.uk - member's website
Prof Paolo VineisProfessor of Environmental Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College LondonMolecular epidemiology, gene-environment interactions, biomarkers of disease, epidemiological research on climate change, genetic susceptibility to cancer, carcinogenesisp.vineis@imperial.ac.uk - member's website
Prof Martin WilliamsProfessor in Air Quality Research, Environmental Research Group, King’s College LondonImpact 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 standardsmartin.williams@kcl.ac.uk - member's website
Centre Lecturers
Dr Toby AthersuchLecturer 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 biologytoby.athersuch@imperial.ac.uk - member's website
Dr Marta BlangiardoLecturer in Biostatistics, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College LondonBayesian 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 epidemiologym.blangiardo@imperial.ac.uk member's website
Dr Jake BundyLecturer in Biological Chemistry, Department of Biomolecular Medicine, Imperial College LondonMicrobial and invertebrate metabolomicsj.bundy@imperial.ac.uk - member's website
Dr Muireann CoenLecturer in Metabonomics and Biochemical Toxicology and MRC ITTP Fellow, Department of Biomolecular Medicine, Imperial College LondonApplication of metabonomic technologies to study adverse drug reactions, xenobiotic toxicity in animal models, NMR-based metabonomics as a diagnostic tool for monitoring infectionsm.coen@imperial.ac.uk - member's website
Dr Lea DaileyLecturer in Pharmaceutics, Kings College LondonPulmonary drug delivery, assessment of nanotoxicology of inhaled drug delivery vehicles and the use of nanotechnology in diagnostics lea_ann.dailey@kcl.ac.uk
Dr Robert EdwardsResearch Lecturer, Toxicology Unit, Imperial College LondonInvestigation of protein biomarkers and development of approaches for generation of protein-specific antibodiesr.edwards@imperial.ac.uk -
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Dr John GulliverLecturer in Environmental Sciences, MRC-HPA Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College LondonApplications of Geographical information systems to studies of environmental and human health, air pollution monitoring, environmental modelling, exposure and health risk assessment, personal exposure monitoringj.gulliver@imperial.ac.uk
Dr Nabil HajjiLecturer 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 - member's website
Dr Meinir JonesLecturer in Occupational Asthma, National Heart & Lung InstituteOccupational asthma and allergy, occupational lung diseasemeinir.jones@imperial.ac.uk - member's website
Dr Hector KeunLecturer in Biological Chemistry, Department of Biomolecular Medicine, Imperial College LondonMetabolic 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 - member's website
Dr John MolitorLecturer in Statistics, Imperial College LondonBayesian methods, latent variable modelling, measurement error models, spatial modelling, genetic epidemiology, Markov Chain Monte Carlo estimation methodsjohn.molitor@imperial.ac.uk - member's website
Dr Ian MudwayLecturer, Pharmaceutical Science Division, Kings College LondonToxicity Profiling of Urban Particulate Matter, airway responses to diesel exhaust exposureian.mudway@kcl.ac.uk - member's website
Dr Andrew ThorleyRCUK Lecturer in Nanotoxicology, Imperial College LondonUptake of nanoparticles by the respiratory alveolar epithelium and effects on pulmonary innate immune response, cigarette smoke and inflammatory responses of the alveolar macrophage and epitheliumandrew.thorley@imperial.ac.uk - member's website
Dr Cathryn TonneLecturer in Environmental Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineHealth effects of air pollution, application of toxicity-based measures of exposure to particles in epidemiological studies, socioeconomic inequalities in exposure and susceptibility to air pollutioncathryn.tonne@lshtm.ac.uk - member's website
Affiliated Members
Prof David BriggsProfessor of Environmental Science and Health, Imperial College LondonTraffic and air pollution and health, geographical information systems, assessment of environmental exposuresd.briggs@imperial.ac.uk -
Prof Derek CookProfessor of Epidemiology Division of Community Health Sciences, St George’s, University of LondonPrimary care epidemiology, epidemiology of respiratory & cardiovascular disease, indoor and outdoor air pollution, early origins of adult disease, life-course epidemiologyd.cook@sgul.ac.uk -
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Prof Sue GrimesProfessor in Waste Management, Imperial College LondonSustainable 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 productss.grimes@imperial.ac.uk - member's website
Prof Stefan GrimmProfessor of Toxicology, Imperial College LondonGenetic screening for the isolation of apoptosis-inducing genes, gene signalling pathwayss.grimm@imperial.ac.uk - member's website
Prof Sir Brian HoskinsDirector of Grantham Institute of Climate Change, Imperial CollegeEnvironmental pollution, climate change, meteorology, risk management, development of policy on climate changeb.hoskins@imperial.ac.uk - member's website
Prof Virginia MurrayConsultant Medical Toxicologist and Environmental Public Health; Centre for Radiation, Chemicals and Environmental Hazards (London), Health Protection AgencyChemical 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 -
Prof David StrachanProfessor of Epidemiology,Division of Community Health Sciences, St George’s, University of LondonEpidemiology of asthma and allergy, genetic epidemiology, health effects of indoor and outdoor air pollutiond.strachan@sgul.ac.uk - member's website

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