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  • 2012 - Member of Academia Europaea
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  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
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  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Peter J. Barnes is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, particularly focusing on pulmonary and respiratory medicine. Their research spans multiple related subfields, including physiology, surgery, infectious diseases, and even touches on astronomy and astrophysics.

The scientist's main research topics include chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) research, asthma and respiratory diseases, respiratory support and mechanisms, eosinophilic esophagitis, respiratory and cough-related research, astrophysics and star formation studies, and COVID-19 clinical research studies.

Recent notable publications feature:

  • Sex and gender: modifiers of health, disease, and medicine (2020) in The Lancet
  • Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease 2023 Report: GOLD Executive Summary (2023) in European Respiratory Journal
  • Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease 2023 Report: GOLD Executive Summary (2023) in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • Oxidative stress-based therapeutics in COPD (2020) in Redox Biology
  • Inhaled budesonide in the treatment of early COVID-19 (STOIC): a phase 2, open-label, randomised controlled trial (2021) in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine

Frequently collaborating co-authors of this scientist include Louise Donnelly, Jonathan Baker, Emily C. McGowan, Alberto Papi, and Ian Pavord.

The most frequent publication venues for this researcher are:

  • The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology In Practice
  • European Respiratory Journal
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Peter J. Barnes has received several recognitions, including being a Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom since 2007, a Member of Academia Europaea since 2012, and a Member of the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • Global strategy for the diagnosis, management, and prevention of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: GOLD executive summary.

    Jørgen Vestbo;Suzanne S. Hurd;Alvar G. Agustí;Paul W. Jones

  • Nuclear factor-kappaB: a pivotal transcription factor in chronic inflammatory diseases.

    Peter J. Barnes;Michael Karin

  • Global Strategy for the Diagnosis, Management and Prevention of Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease 2017 Report: GOLD Executive Summary

    Claus F. Vogelmeier;Gerard J. Criner;Fernando J. Martinez;Antonio Anzueto

  • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

    Peter J. Barnes

  • Global strategy for asthma management and prevention: GINA executive summary.

    Bateman Ed;Hurd Ss;Barnes Pj;Bousquet J

  • Systemic manifestations and comorbidities of COPD

    P. J. Barnes;B. R. Celli

  • Effects of an interleukin-5 blocking monoclonal antibody on eosinophils, airway hyper-responsiveness, and the late asthmatic response

    Margaret J Leckie;Anneke ten Brinke;Jamey Khan;Zuzana Diamant

  • Effect of inhaled formoterol and budesonide on exacerbations of asthma. Formoterol and Corticosteroids Establishing Therapy (FACET) International Study Group

    Romain A. Pauwels;Claes-Göran Löfdahl;Dirkje S. Postma;Anne E. Tattersfield

  • Anti-inflammatory actions of glucocorticoids : molecular mechanisms

    Peter J. Barnes

  • Differences in interleukin-8 and tumor necrosis factor-alpha in induced sputum from patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or asthma.

    Vera M. Keatings;Paul D. Collins;Denise M. Scott;Peter J. Barnes

  • Global Strategy for the Diagnosis, Management, and Prevention of Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease: the GOLD science committee report 2019.

    Dave Singh;Alvar Agusti;Antonio Anzueto;Peter J. Barnes

  • Sex and gender: modifiers of health, disease, and medicine.

    Franck Mauvais-Jarvis;Noel Bairey Merz;Peter J. Barnes;Roberta D. Brinton

  • Immunology of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

    Peter J. Barnes

  • Increased nitric oxide in exhaled air of asthmatic patients

    S.A. Kharitonov;D. Yates;R.A. Robbins;P.J. Barnes

  • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in non-smokers

    Sundeep S Salvi;Peter J Barnes

  • Exhaled breath condensate: methodological recommendations and unresolved questions

    I Horváth;J Hunt;P J Barnes

  • Inflammatory mechanisms in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

    Peter J. Barnes

  • The cytokine network in asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

    Peter J. Barnes

  • Decreased histone deacetylase activity in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

    Kazuhiro Ito;Misako Ito;W Mark Elliott;Borja Cosio

  • Exhaled markers of pulmonary disease.

    Sergei A. Kharitonov;Peter J. Barnes

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian M. Adcock
Ian M. Adcock Imperial College London
Kazuhiro Ito
Kazuhiro Ito Imperial College London
Sergei A. Kharitonov
Sergei A. Kharitonov National Institutes of Health
Kian Fan Chung
Kian Fan Chung Imperial College London
Maria G. Belvisi
Maria G. Belvisi Imperial College London
Mark A. Giembycz
Mark A. Giembycz University of Calgary
Robert Newton
Robert Newton University of Calgary
Alberto Papi
Alberto Papi University of Ferrara
Jadwiga A. Wedzicha
Jadwiga A. Wedzicha Imperial College London
Mark A. Lindsay
Mark A. Lindsay University of Bath

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