Sebastian L. Johnston

Sebastian L. Johnston: is Professor of Respiratory Medicine & Allergy and Head of Airway Disease at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London. He has been working in respiratory virus research for >30 years.
He is widely regarded as a leading global expert in respiratory viral infections.
Background
He was the Director of the MRC & Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma, from 2010-2016 and continues as Director of the Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma. He is the Asthma UK Clinical Professor and is a former and current European Research Council Advanced Grant holder. He is Emeritus Senior Investigator at the National Institute of Health Research, UK.
He became a Professor at Imperial in 1999 (age 39). He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London in 2000, of the Royal Society of Biology in 2011, of the Academy of Medical Sciences and the European Respiratory Society in 2014 and of the European Academy of Allergy & Clinical Immunology in 2020.
He won the Paul Ehrlich Award for his research in Allergy & Clinical Immunology in 2018, the BMJ research paper of the year in 2018 and the European Respiratory Society Gold Medal for his asthma research in 2020.
He edited The International Respiratory Journal “Thorax” from 2002-2010. He has published >500 scholarly manuscripts in peer reviewed journals and has 18 patents. He has an h-index of 107, and more than 55,000 lifetime citations.