Peterj Effery

Biography

Professor (Emeritus) Peter Key Jeffery FRCPath. DSc.(Med) PhD. MSc. is a Senior research Investigator, Imperial College London and Honorary Consultant, Royal Brompton Hospital (RBH) the campus where he is located. He began his career at the Institute (then Institute of Diseases of the Chest) in 1968 and, apart from a brief period at St George’s Hospital and Chelsea King’s College, UK has been with us since. In 1992, he initiated and directed the Lung Pathology Research Unit and throughout his career divided his research efforts into 3 areas: (1) normal lung microstructure, (2) basic mechanisms of airway inflammation and airway wall remodelling in both chronic and acute phases (i.e. exacerbations) of airway diseases and (3) investigating and testing improved or novel treatments, primarily for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Professor Jeffery has taught undergraduates and post-graduate lung specialists and, in response to invitation, lectures extensively throughout the world. He has held posts as Scientific Group leader, Head elect of the Cell & Molecular Biology Assembly of the European Respiratory Society and was on the Editorial Board of the European Respiratory Journal for 5 years. He has won several awards, particularly through application of his high resolution images of the lung with which he has illustrated and unravelled the complexities of the lung in health and disease. He has hundreds of publications published in the best respiratory journals world-wide and his chapters on normal lung microanatomy and pathology have become standard reference texts.

Research Interest

Cell & Molecular Biology, Pathogenesis