Timothy Williams

Biography

Tim Williams is Emeritus Professor in Airway Disease of the National Heart and Lung Institute. Until October 2010, he was the Asthma UK Professor of Applied Pharmacology in the NHLI, and the Head of the Leukocyte Biology Section located in the Sir Alexander Fleming Building (SAF) on the South Kensington Campus. He also served as Campus Dean for the Faculty of Medicine on the Campus. He was elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2000, Foreign Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences in 2007, Fellow of the Royal Society in 2012 and Honorary Fellow of the British Pharmacological Society in 2015. He obtained a BSc in Physiology at University College London and a PhD in Pharmacology at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology. He was appointed to the Asthma UK Chair in 1988 and was based in the Guy Scadding Building until 1998 when he moved his section to the newly-opened SAF Building. From 2006-2010 he was Co-director of the MRC & Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma, a joint venture with Kings College London.

Research Interest

Pharmacology, Physiology