Dr. Sejal Saglani

Biography

Sejal Saglani leads the Paediatric Severe Asthma Group at the National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London, where she is also an Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine at the Royal Brompton Hospital. She completed her undergraduate degree in medicine at the University of Leicester and received her clinical specialist training in Respiratory Paediatrics in the Thames Region. Her postgraduate work, funded by Asthma UK, focused on the pathology of severe infant and preschool wheeze, earning the NHLI Thesis Prize. Prof. Saglani has developed a neonatal mouse model of allergic airways disease, supported by a British Lung Foundation Research Fellowship, and currently holds a Wellcome Intermediate Clinical Fellowship. Her research aims to investigate the mechanisms behind severe preschool wheeze and to identify factors that predict the progression to asthma in school-age children. She has established a translational research programme combining airway sample analysis from children with a neonatal mouse model, fostering clinical translation and interventional clinical trials. Prof. Saglani has received multiple prestigious awards including the MRC New Investigator Award and the European Respiratory Society Young Investigator Award. Additionally, she has been recognized for her contributions to asthma research with prizes such as the European Respiratory Society Romain Pauwels Award for Excellence in Translational Respiratory Research.

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