PJ Barnes

Professor Sir Peter Barnes DM, DSc, FRCP, FCCP, FMedSci, FRS

Peter Barnes is Professor of Thoracic Medicine at the National Heart and Lung Institute was Head of Respiratory Medicine at Imperial College London 1987-2017. He qualified at Cambridge and Oxford Universities (first class honours) and trained in London. He has published >1500 peer-review papers on asthma, COPD and respiratory pharmacology (h-index 230, >200,000 citations) and has written/edited >50 books. He is in the top 100 most highly cited researchers in the world and has been the most highly cited respiratory researcher in the world over the last 30 years. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2007, the first respiratory researcher for >150 years. He has given several prestigious lectures, including Amberson Lecture at American Thoracic Society and Sadoul Lecture at European Respiratory Society. He was President of the ERS in 2013/2014. He was awarded the Trudeau Medal by the ATS in 2020 and knighted in 2023 for services to respiratory science. Professor Barnes does research on the mechanisms and treatment of asthma and COPD and is currently working on the role of cellular senescence in chronic lung diseases.