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Overview

Kian Fan Chung is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a strong specialization in pulmonary and respiratory medicine, physiology, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, immunology, and molecular biology. The scientist contributes extensively to the fields of asthma and respiratory diseases, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) research, respiratory and cough-related research, air quality and health impacts, IL-33, ST2, and ILC pathways, climate change and health impacts, and inhalation and respiratory drug delivery.

Their most frequently appearing coauthors include Ian M. Adcock, Ratko Djukanović, Hsiao-Chi Chuang, Nazanin Zounemat Kermani, and Woo-Jung Song. These collaborations reflect a diverse team contributing to the advancement of respiratory and immunological research.

The main publication venues where Kian Fan Chung's work is frequently published are:

  • Allergy
  • ERJ Open Research
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • European Respiratory Journal
  • The Lancet Respiratory Medicine

Significant recent papers authored or coauthored by Kian Fan Chung include:

  • "Confronting COVID-19-associated cough and the post-COVID syndrome: role of viral neurotropism, neuroinflammation, and neuroimmune responses," 2021, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
  • "Molecular mechanisms of oxidative stress in asthma," 2021, Molecular Aspects of Medicine
  • "Oxidative Stress in Ozone-Induced Chronic Lung Inflammation and Emphysema: A Facet of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease," 2020, Frontiers in Immunology
  • "Cough hypersensitivity and chronic cough," 2022, Nature Reviews Disease Primers
  • "The impact of air pollution on respiratory diseases in an era of climate change: A review of the current evidence," 2023, The Science of The Total Environment

Best Publications

  • International ERS/ATS guidelines on definition, evaluation and treatment of severe asthma

    Kian Fan Chung;Sally E. Wenzel;Jan L. Brozek;Andrew Bush

  • Identification of Asthma Phenotypes Using Cluster Analysis in the Severe Asthma Research Program

    Wendy C. Moore;Deborah A. Meyers;Sally E. Wenzel;W. Gerald Teague

  • Neutrophilic inflammation in severe persistent asthma.

    Anon Jatakanon;Carina Uasuf;Wazim Maziak;Sam Lim

  • Respiratory effects of exposure to diesel traffic in persons with asthma.

    James McCreanor;Paul Cullinan;Mark J Nieuwenhuijsen;James Stewart-Evans

  • Inflammatory mediators of asthma: an update.

    P J Barnes;K F Chung;C P Page

  • Characterization of the severe asthma phenotype by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Severe Asthma Research Program

    Wendy C. Moore;Eugene R. Bleecker;Douglas Curran-Everett;Serpil C. Erzurum

  • Impact of air pollution on the burden of chronic respiratory diseases in China: time for urgent action

    Wei-Jie Guan;Xue-Yan Zheng;Kian Fan Chung;Nan-Shan Zhong

  • Uniform definition of asthma severity, control, and exacerbations: Document presented for the World Health Organization Consultation on Severe Asthma

    Jean Bousquet;Jean Bousquet;Eva Mantzouranis;Alvaro A. Cruz;Nadia Aït-Khaled

  • Cytokines in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

    Chung Kf

  • Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of asthma in ethnically diverse North American populations

    Dara G. Torgerson;Dara G. Torgerson;Elizabeth J. Ampleford;Grace Y. Chiu;W. James Gauderman

  • Cytokines in asthma

    K F Chung;P J Barnes

  • Prevalence, pathogenesis, and causes of chronic cough

    Kian Fan Chung;Ian D Pavord

  • The diagnosis and management of chronic cough

    A. H. Morice;G. A. Fontana;A. R. A. Sovijarvi;M. Pistolesi

  • Correlation between exhaled nitric oxide, sputum eosinophils, and methacholine responsiveness in patients with mild asthma.

    A Jatakanon;S Lim;S A Kharitonov;K F Chung

  • ERS guidelines on the assessment of cough

    A. H. Morice;G. A. Fontana;M. G. Belvisi;S. S. Birring

  • Multifaceted mechanisms in COPD: inflammation, immunity, and tissue repair and destruction

    K. F. Chung;I. M. Adcock

  • Prevalence, risk factors, and management of asthma in China: a national cross-sectional study

    K Huang;T Yang;J Xu;L Yang

  • Efficacy and safety of a recombinant anti‐immunoglobulin E antibody (omalizumab) in severe allergic asthma

    S.T. Holgate;A.G. Chuchalin;J. Hebert;J. Lotvall

  • Cigarette smoking reduces histone deacetylase 2 expression, enhances cytokine expression, and inhibits glucocorticoid actions in alveolar macrophages.

    K. Ito;S. Lim;G. Caramori;K. F. Chung

  • Clinical and inflammatory characteristics of the European U-BIOPRED adult severe asthma cohort

    Dominick E. Shaw;Ana R. Sousa;Stephen J. Fowler;Louise J. Fleming

  • Inflammatory mediators and asthma.

    P J Barnes;K F Chung;C P Page

  • Activation and localization of transcription factor, nuclear factor-kappaB, in asthma.

    Hart La;Krishnan Vl;Adcock Im;Barnes Pj

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian M. Adcock
Ian M. Adcock Imperial College London
Ratko Djukanovic
Ratko Djukanovic University of Southampton
Peter J. Barnes
Peter J. Barnes Imperial College London
Peter J. Sterk
Peter J. Sterk University of Amsterdam
Charles Auffray
Charles Auffray Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Eugene R. Bleecker
Eugene R. Bleecker University of Arizona
Sally E. Wenzel
Sally E. Wenzel University of Pittsburgh
Peter H. Howarth
Peter H. Howarth University of Southampton
Sven-Erik Dahlén
Sven-Erik Dahlén Karolinska Institute
Alberto Papi
Alberto Papi University of Ferrara

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