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Mona Bafadhel

Professor Mona Bafadhel

Chair of Respiratory Medicine

  • Director of the King’s Centre for Lung Health

Research interests

  • Medicine

Biography

Mona Bafadhel is the Director of the new King’s Centre for Lung Health, and the Chair of Respiratory Medicine at King’s College London. She is also a consultant respiratory physician with a clinical and research interest in chronic obstructive lung disease (COPD) and asthma. Mona is an international academic leader in respiratory medicine, with a passion for translating science to clinical practice to improve outcomes for patients. Her work in COPD and COVID-19 has translated to changing clinical practice affecting millions across the world. In 2018, Mona was awarded the Goulstonian Lectureship from the Royal College of Physicians for excellence in the Clinical Sciences. She is only the 4th woman and the 1st from an ethnic minority in the Royal College of Physician near 400 year history to have achieved this accolade. Mona was appointed as co-lead of the King’s Health Partners Respiratory & Allergy Clinical Academic Group in March 2022.

Specific Research Interests: Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (COPD) Exacerbations Asthma and Airways Disease Endotypes Eosinophils Airway Inflammation Translational Respiratory Medicine 

Research

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King's Centre for Lung Health

Promoting lung health throughout the lifetime, by preventing, diagnosing and treating lung disease.

Transdiagnostic biological clustering
Clinical Diagnostics Development Unit (CDDU)

The CDDU ethos is to harmonise all methods used within the labs for the processing of clinical samples.

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Microbes in Health & Disease

The Microbes in Health & Diseases Research Interest Group aims to foster collaboration across departments and faculties at KCL to explore the multifaceted role microbes play in health and disease.

News

New heart disease calculator could save lives by identifying high-risk patients missed by current tools

The collaborative research, led from the University of Oxford, has developed a new tool that more accurately predicts risk of cardiovascular diseases

congenital heart disease

European Innovation Council awards £3.8 million funding to accelerate COPD technology

A healthcare research consortium including King’s Centre for Lung Health, has been awarded four million euros (£3.8 million) funding by the European...

Carrying out a description of the radiographs of a patient with COPD

Developing Translational Research Capabilities in the School of Immunology & Microbial Sciences

Researchers from the School of Immunology & Microbial Sciences have been awarded funding through King's Health Partners Essentials for Translational Medical...

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King's Centre for Lung Health celebrates its launch

The new Centre promises innovative and inclusive research into lung health throughout the lifetime, meeting an unmet global need.

King's Centre for Lung Health launch 780x450

Events

08DecHarold Moody (780 × 450 px)

Harold Moody Lecture 2022

Professor Stephani Hatch on 'Accelerating the Pace of Change in Tackling Social and Mental Health Inequalities and Inequities

Please note: this event has passed.

Research

Lung thumbnail
King's Centre for Lung Health

Promoting lung health throughout the lifetime, by preventing, diagnosing and treating lung disease.

Transdiagnostic biological clustering
Clinical Diagnostics Development Unit (CDDU)

The CDDU ethos is to harmonise all methods used within the labs for the processing of clinical samples.

Hero_Microbes_RIG-thumbnail
Microbes in Health & Disease

The Microbes in Health & Diseases Research Interest Group aims to foster collaboration across departments and faculties at KCL to explore the multifaceted role microbes play in health and disease.

News

New heart disease calculator could save lives by identifying high-risk patients missed by current tools

The collaborative research, led from the University of Oxford, has developed a new tool that more accurately predicts risk of cardiovascular diseases

congenital heart disease

European Innovation Council awards £3.8 million funding to accelerate COPD technology

A healthcare research consortium including King’s Centre for Lung Health, has been awarded four million euros (£3.8 million) funding by the European...

Carrying out a description of the radiographs of a patient with COPD

Developing Translational Research Capabilities in the School of Immunology & Microbial Sciences

Researchers from the School of Immunology & Microbial Sciences have been awarded funding through King's Health Partners Essentials for Translational Medical...

khp_logo

King's Centre for Lung Health celebrates its launch

The new Centre promises innovative and inclusive research into lung health throughout the lifetime, meeting an unmet global need.

King's Centre for Lung Health launch 780x450

Events

08DecHarold Moody (780 × 450 px)

Harold Moody Lecture 2022

Professor Stephani Hatch on 'Accelerating the Pace of Change in Tackling Social and Mental Health Inequalities and Inequities

Please note: this event has passed.