Dr. Philip Molyneaux

Biography

Philip Molyneaux is a Professor of Interstitial Lung Disease at Imperial College London, where he holds the Asthma+Lung UK Chair in Respiratory Research. He is also a consultant at the Royal Brompton Hospital and the director of the NIHR Clinical Research Facility. He qualified from Guy’s, King’s & St Thomas’ School of Medicine in 2004, completing an intercalated BSc in Molecular Genetics. He undertook SHO training at Guy’s and St Thomas’, completed MRCP, and attained an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow position in respiratory medicine at Imperial College. He has trained at St Mary’s Hospital, working with Professors Cookson, Moffatt, and Johnston, focusing on respiratory microbiome in COPD. His PhD research examined the host response to the respiratory microbiome in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, part of the PROFILE study under Professor Maher. He returned to Imperial as a Senior Clinical Lecturer after completing his training in Respiratory Critical Care Medicine. He has been awarded the Action Pulmonary Fibrosis Mike Bray Fellowship, which enabled him to establish a research group dedicated to studying the interaction between respiratory tract microbiota and innate immunity in pulmonary fibrosis.

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