Peter Barnes

Year of accession to the Fellowship

1966

Year of accession to current category of Fellowship

2011

Current research interests

Mechanisms and treatment of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonay disease

Biography

Peter Barnes is Margaret-Turner Warwick Professor of Medicine at the National Heart and Lung Institute and Honorary Consultant Physician at Royal Brompton Hospital, London.

He qualified at Cambridge and Oxford Universities (first class honours) and was appointed to his present post in 1987. He has published over 1000 peer-review papers on asthma, COPD and related topics (h-index 224) and has written or edited over 50 books. He is one of the top 10 most highly cited researchers in the world and the most highly cited respiratory researcher in the world over the last 20 years.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2007, the first respiratory researcher for over 150 years. He is currently a member of the Scientific Committee of global guidelines on COPD (GOLD). He also serves on the Editorial Board of over 30 journals and is currently an Associate Editor of Chest, Journal of COPD Foundation and Editor in Chief of Up-to-Date Pulmonary Diseases. He has given several prestigious lectures, including the Amberson Lecture at the American Thoracic Society, the Sadoul Lecture at the European Respiratory Society and the Croonian Lecture at the Royal College of Physicians. He has been received honorary degrees from the Universities of Ferrara (Italy), Athens (Greece), Tampere (Finland), Leuven (Belgium) and Maastricht (Netherlands). He is an emeritus NIHR Senior Investigator, a Master Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians and elected member of Academia Europaea. He served as President of the European Respiratory Society 2013/14. He co-founded an Imperial spin-out company RespiVert, which was acquired by Johnson & Johnson and has developed novel inhaled treatments for COPD and severe asthma.

• 1991 Linacre Lecture: Royal College of Physicians
• 1995 Dutch Medical Federation Annual Prize
• 1996 Amberson Lecture: American Thoracic Society
• 1997 MD Honoris Causa: University of Ferrara
• 1997 William Withering Lecture: Royal College of Physicians
• 1998 Founding Fellow: Academy of Medical Sciences
• 1998 Erasmus Lecture: Vrije Universiteit Brussel (University of Brussels)
• 1999 Sadoul Lecture: European Respiratory Society
• 2000 Manuel Albertal Memorial Lecture: American College of Chest Physicians
• 2001 MD Honoris Causa: University of Athens
• 2001 Poulson Prize: Norwegian Pharmacology Society
• 2002 College Medalist: American College of Chest Physicians
• 2008 MD Honoris Causa: University of Tampere
• 2007 Fellow of Royal Society (first respiratory researcher elected since Heny Hyde Salter in 1856)
• 2007 Gold Medal: British Thoracic Society
• 2009 Croonian Lecture: Royal College of Physicians^[20]
• 2009 Senior Investigator: National Institute of Health Research (NHS)
• 2010 MD Honoris Causa: Catholic University of Leuven
• 2011 Honorary Fellow St Catharine's College, Cambridge
• 2012 Master FCCP: American College of Chest Physicians
• 2012 Member Academia Europaea (European Academy)
• 2013 President: European Respiratory Society
• 2014 Doctorate Honoris Causa: University of Maastricht
• 2018 Expertscape recognized Barnes as the top-ranked expert in the world in COPD. ^[21]
• 2019 President: British Association for Lung Research (BALR)
• 2019 Foreign member, Academy of Athens
• 2020 Trudeau Medal: American Thoracic Society