Jurgen has contributed significantly to the understanding of the role that viruses have in the development of asthma and in acute asthma attacks.
As a paediatric allergist and chest physician and clinical researcher, he has longstanding experience in basic and clinical research in asthma and allergy related fields. As a former member of the Asthma UK Research Committee he has helped to identify important and scientifically outstanding research projects.
After training in paediatrics in Germany, followed by a post–doctoral fellowship in Denver, Colorado, he became a Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow in 2002 at Imperial College London and since 2007 has held the Edward Clark Chair of Child Life and Health at Edinburgh University. He is also Chair of the Scottish Paediatric Allergy Group.
Jurgen has asthma and understands the challenges that living with the condition poses and hopes to contribute his clinical knowledge of childhood asthma and research expertise with a particular interest in highlighting the close link of asthma with allergy.
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