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Ratko Djukanovic is Professor of Medicine, University of Southampton. He trained at the University of Geneva and the University of Begrade. He obtained his Doctorate of Medicine at Southampton University. His research focuses on airway immune and inflammatory mechanisms induced by allergen and infectious agents, determinants of asthma severity and identification of biomarkers that enable its stratification into phenotypes and endotypes. He has led several studies of efficacy and mechanisms of action of new asthma drugs. He is the cofounder of U-BIOPRED, a European Consortium stratifying severe asthma into new endotypes and phenotypes. More recently he has founded (with Prof Elisabeth Bel as co-chair) the ERS Severe Asthma Clinical Research Collaboration, SHARP.