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Professor and
Consultant Respiratory Physician
University of
Dundee School of Medicine
Scotland, United
Kingdom
Prof James
Chalmers is a Professor and Consultant Respiratory Physician at the School of
Medicine, University of Dundee. His laboratory works primarily on the
interaction between neutrophils and bacteria during acute and chronic airway
infections. Major areas of research with relevance to AMR include phase 1 and
phase 2 studies of non-antibiotic alternative therapies for respiratory
infections, the development of diagnostics to reduce antibiotic use by more
accurately identifying bacterial infections and work to understand the
selective drivers of antimicrobial resistance in chronic airways diseases such
as bronchiectasis and cystic fibrosis where multidrug resistant Gram-negative
infections are common. His work is funded by the Wellcome Trust, Medical
Research Council, Scottish Government, EU and the pharmaceutical industry.
Professor of
Respiratory Medicine
Department of
Pathophysiology and Transplantation
University of
Milan
Milan, Italy
Prof Francesco
Blasi is Professor of Respiratory Medicine Department of Pathophysiology and
Transplantation at the University of Milan, Italy, as well as Head of Internal
Medicine Department and Respiratory Unit of the Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda
Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy. He is also director of the Adult
Cystic Fibrosis Center of the Lombardia Regional Referral CF Center and
currently a member of the Board of Directors of the University of Milan. He was
president of the European Respiratory Society from 2012–2013, president of the
Italian Respiratory Society from 2016–2017, and since 2019, he has been
vice-president of the Italian Society of Cystic Fibrosis.
Prof Blasi has
published more than 450 papers in international journals [h-index (January
2022) WEB of Science: 64; SCOPUS: 58]. His research interests include
pneumonia, COPD, bronchiectasis, tuberculosis and NTM infections, cystic
fibrosis and lung transplantation.