Stephen T. Holgate

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Stephen Townley Holgate (born February 2, 1947 ) is a British medical doctor ( pulmonology , allergology ). In particular, he researched the development of asthma and allergies.

Holgate studied biochemistry (Bachelor's degree in 1968) and medicine at Charing Cross Hospital Medical School in London (graduated in 1971). He then did an internship at various London hospitals. In 1975 he went to Southampton , where he specialized in pulmonology and received his doctorate (MD) in it. As a post-graduate student, he was in Boston . In 1987 he became professor of immunopharmacology at the University of Southampton , a research professorship on the Medical Research Council. He is also an Honorary Consultant Physician at the General Hospital. In 1991 he received a D. Sc. from the University of Southampton for his work on asthma research. Among other things, he was visiting professor in Toronto (1991), at Harvard University , at Yale University , at the University of California, San Francisco and at Vanderbilt University .

Holgate is the author and co-author of over 800 scientific articles (2010). Among other things, he and his working group found the important asthma gene ADAM33. He also examined the influence of cold viruses ( rhinovirus ) on asthma.

Holgate has also emerged as the UK Government's leading medical advisor on air pollution issues. In particular, he saw diesel exhaust as a possible cause of asthma and called for better filters (2004).

From 1990 to 1993 he was President of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology (whose Jack Pepys Lecture he gave in 1994) and was on the board of the National Allergy Strategy Group of Great Britain and, from 2002, on the Royal Commission for Environmental Pollution . In 1998 he was a founding member of the Academy of Medical Sciences, he is a fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists and since 1984 of the Royal College of Physicians (whose Lumleian Lecture he gave in 2000). He received the Graham Bull Prize of the Royal College of Physicians in 1993 and held their Philip Ellman Lectures in 1990. In 1992 he was Cournand Lecturer of the European Respiratory Society. In 2006/7 he was President of the British Thoracic Society and in 2005 Vice President of the British Lung Foundation. He has multiple honorary doctorates, including from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and the University of Ferrara . He is an external member of the Polish Academy of Learning in Cracow. In 2003 he received the Ellison-Cliffe Medal from the Royal Society of Medicine . He is an honorary member of the American College of Allergy, the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (AAAAI), whose Robert Cooke Memorial Award he received in 2000, and the Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland. He has been a full member of the Academia Europaea since 2013 .

He is co-editor of Clinical and Experimental Allergy .

In 1999 he received the König Faisal Prize for Medicine.

Fonts (selection)

  • Editor with Adkinson, Yunginger: Middleton's Allergy, Principles and Practice , 2 volumes, 6th edition, Mosby, 2003
  • Editor with Martin Church, Lawrence Lichtenstein: Allergy , Mosby, 3rd edition, 2006
  • with Richard Beasley: Your Guide to Asthma , Hodder Education 2005
  • with Romain Pauwels: Asthma , Health Press 1999
  • Editor with Robert Maynard, Hillel Koren: Air pollution and health , Academic Press 1999

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The gene codes for Disintegrin and metalloproteinase domain-containing protein 33 . Holgate, DE Davies, S. Rorke, J. Cakebread, G. Murphy, RM Powell, JW Holloway ADAM 33 and its association with airway remodeling and hyperresponsiveness in asthma , Clinical Reviews in Allergy & Immunology , Volume 27, 2005, p. 23 -34. Holgate, Y. Yang, HM Haitchi et al. a. The genetics of asthma: ADAM33 as an example of a susceptibility gene , Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society, Volume 3, 2006, pp. 440-443. Van Eerdewegh, Holgate u. a. Association of the ADAM33 gene with asthma and bronchial hyperresponsiveness , Nature, Volume 418, 2002, pp. 426-430 (July 25, 2002)
  2. ^ Holgate after The Independent, April 11, 2004
  3. ↑ Directory of Members: Stephen Townley Holgate. Academia Europaea, accessed December 11, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Holgate, Stephen T.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Holgate, Stephen Townley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British medic
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1947