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Belgium
2026

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Immunology

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115
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45831
World Ranking
399
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Medicine

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Citations
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World Ranking
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National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Immunology in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Immunology in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Immunology in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Immunology in Belgium Leader Award

Overview

Guy Brusselle is affiliated with the Ghent University Hospital in Belgium and has a substantial body of research focused primarily in the field of Medicine, with specific expertise in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Physiology, Molecular Biology, Immunology, and Immunology and Allergy. Their research topics span asthma and respiratory diseases, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), respiratory and cough-related research, inhalation and respiratory drug delivery, allergic rhinitis and sensitization, IL-33, ST2, and ILC pathways, and eosinophilic esophagitis.

Their frequent co-authors include Lies Lahousse, Giorgio Walter Canonica, Ken R. Bracke, Liam G. Heaney, and Ian Pavord. Their work is often published in prominent journals such as the European Respiratory Journal, ERJ Open Research, the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology In Practice, and The Lancet Respiratory Medicine.

Recent notable publications by the scientist include:

  • Global Initiative for Asthma Strategy 2021: executive summary and rationale for key changes (2021), European Respiratory Journal
  • Objectives, design and main findings until 2020 from the Rotterdam Study (2020), European Journal of Epidemiology
  • Key recommendations for primary care from the 2022 Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) update (2023), npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine
  • Eosinophilic and Noneosinophilic Asthma (2021), CHEST Journal
  • Efficacy and safety of once-daily single-inhaler triple therapy (FF/UMEC/VI) versus FF/VI in patients with inadequately controlled asthma (CAPTAIN): a double-blind, randomised, phase 3A trial (2020), The Lancet Respiratory Medicine

Guy Brusselle has also contributed to book publications, including a work titled Diagnosis of asthma in adults (expected in 2025) published by the European Respiratory Society.

Best Publications

  • Mepolizumab Treatment in Patients with Severe Eosinophilic Asthma

    Hector G. Ortega;Mark C. Liu;Ian D. Pavord;Guy G. Brusselle

  • The Rotterdam Study: Objectives and design update

    Albert Hofman;Guy G. O. Brusselle;Sarwa Darwish Murad;Cornelia M. van Duijn

  • Reslizumab for inadequately controlled asthma with elevated blood eosinophil counts: results from two multicentre, parallel, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trials

    Mario Castro;James Zangrilli;Michael E Wechsler;Eric D Bateman

  • Efficacy and Safety of Dupilumab in Glucocorticoid-Dependent Severe Asthma.

    Klaus F. Rabe;Parameswaran Nair;Guy Brusselle;Jorge F. Maspero

  • After asthma: redefining airways diseases

    Ian D Pavord;Richard Beasley;Alvar Agusti;Gary P Anderson

  • Treatable traits: toward precision medicine of chronic airway diseases.

    Alvar Agusti;Elisabeth Bel;Mike Thomas;Claus Vogelmeier

  • New insights into the immunology of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

    Guy G Brusselle;Guy F Joos;Ken R Bracke

  • Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) Strategy 2021 – Executive summary and rationale for key changes

    Helen K. Reddel;Helen K. Reddel;Leonard B. Bacharier;Leonard B. Bacharier;Eric D. Bateman;Eric D. Bateman;Christopher E. Brightling;Christopher E. Brightling

  • Omalizumab is effective in allergic and nonallergic patients with nasal polyps and asthma

    Philippe Gevaert;Lien Calus;Thibaut Van Zele;Katrien Blomme

  • Meta-analyses of genome-wide association studies identify multiple loci associated with pulmonary function

    Dana B. Hancock;Mark Eijgelsheim;Jemma B. Wilk;Sina A. Gharib

  • Role of apoptosis in the pathogenesis of COPD and pulmonary emphysema

    Ingel K Demedts;Tine Demoor;Ken R Bracke;Guy F Joos

  • Attenuation of allergic airway inflammation in IL-4 deficient mice.

    G G Brusselle;J C Kips;J H Tavernier;J G van der Heyden

  • Azithromycin for prevention of exacerbations in severe asthma (AZISAST): a multicentre randomised double-blind placebo-controlled trial

    Guy G Brusselle;Christine VanderStichele;Paul Jordens;René Deman

  • Next-generation Allergic Rhinitis and Its Impact on Asthma (ARIA) guidelines for allergic rhinitis based on Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) and real-world evidence

    Jean Bousquet;Holger J. Schünemann;Akdis Togias;Claus Bachert

  • Multiancestry association study identifies new asthma risk loci that colocalize with immune-cell enhancer marks

    Florence Demenais;Florence Demenais;Patricia Margaritte-Jeannin;Patricia Margaritte-Jeannin;Kathleen C. Barnes;William O.C. Cookson

  • Genome-wide association and large-scale follow up identifies 16 new loci influencing lung function

    María Soler Artigas;Daan W. Loth;Louise V. Wain;Sina A. Gharib

  • The Rotterdam Study: 2018 update on objectives, design and main results.

    M. Arfan Ikram;Guy G. O. Brusselle;Guy G. O. Brusselle;Sarwa Darwish Murad;Cornelia M. van Duijn

  • ALLERGEN-INDUCED AIRWAY INFLAMMATION AND BRONCHIAL RESPONSIVENESS IN WILD-TYPE AND INTERLEUKIN-4-DEFICIENT MICE

    Guy Brusselle;Johan Kips;Guy Joos;H Bluethmann

  • Objectives, design and main findings until 2020 from the Rotterdam Study.

    M Arfan Ikram;Guy Brusselle;Guy Brusselle;Mohsen Ghanbari;André Goedegebure

  • Properties of the COPD assessment test in a cross-sectional European study

    P W Jones;G Brusselle;R W Dal Negro;M Ferrer

  • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease 1 New insights into the immunology of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

    G G Brusselle;G F Joos;K R Bracke;Guy G Brusselle

  • Omalizumab is effective in allergic and non-allergic patients with nasal polyps and asthma

    Philippe Gevaert;Lien Calus;Thibaut Van Zele;Katrien Blomme

  • Multiancestry association study identifies new asthma risk loci that colocalize with immune-cell enhancer marks

    Florence Demenais;Patricia Margaritte-Jeannin;Kathleen C. Barnes;William O. C. Cookson

Frequent Co-Authors

Ken R. Bracke
Ken R. Bracke Ghent University Hospital
Guy Joos
Guy Joos Ghent University Hospital
Bruno H. Stricker
Bruno H. Stricker Erasmus University Rotterdam
Albert Hofman
Albert Hofman Harvard University
Guy Joos
Guy Joos Ghent University Hospital
George T. O'Connor
George T. O'Connor Boston University
David Price
David Price University of Aberdeen
André G. Uitterlinden
André G. Uitterlinden Erasmus University Rotterdam
Oscar H. Franco
Oscar H. Franco University Medical Center Utrecht
Josée Dupuis
Josée Dupuis McGill University

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