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Ian M Adcock graduated in 1987 from the University of London with a PhD in molecular Pharmacology having investigated the role of steroid hormones in sexual dimorphisms in the brain. Following MRC-funded positions in Edinburgh and at St Georges’ Hospital in London he moved in 1990 to the National Heart and Lung Institute (NHLI) to work with Professor Peter J Barnes on the molecular mechanisms of glucocorticoid action in the lung. In 2004 he became Professor of Respiratory Cell & Molecular Biology at Imperial College London and is currently Head of Airways Disease at the NHLI. 

Dr Adcock’s main research focus is on the regulation of the inflammatory mechanisms underlying severe asthma and COPD and understanding the causes of heightened inflammation, epigenetics and relative glucocorticoid insensitivity in patients with these diseases. He also works on multi-omic analysis to define severe asthma molecular phenotypes.