Prof. Kian Fan Chung: neuropathic mechanisms of chronic cough and views on air pollution

Kian Fan Chung (Figure 1), MD, DSc, is Professor of Respiratory Medicine and Head of Experimental Studies at Imperial College London, and Physician at the Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust, London, UK. He heads the Asthma Consortium of the NIHR-funded Biomedical Research Unit of the Royal Brompton NHS Trust. He co-leads the IMI-funded EU/EFPIA UBIOPRED project on severe asthma and is also an investigator in the MRC/Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma, in the MRC-EPA Environment & Health Centre at Imperial/Kings Colleges and in the MRCABPI- funded COPD-MAP Consortium. He is also a senior investigator of the UK National Institute for Health Research.