Professor Ajit Lalvani: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- Chair of Infectious Diseases at Imperial's National Heart and Lung Institute
- Quoted on
- Respiratory (asthma/COPD)
- Press citations held
- 1
- Most recently quoted
- 30 Sept 2026
“A key unanswered question in respiratory infection is why some people resist infection despite repeated exposure, while others go on to develop disease. Through this project, and by harnessing our discoveries during the pandemic, we can directly interrogate the immune mechanisms that prevent infection before it becomes established.”
Where Professor Ajit Lalvani has been quoted
- Imperial secures £12.7m from ARIA to develop broad protection against respiratory virusesimperial.ac.uk · 30 Sept 2026
Professors, researchers and think-tank analysts quoted on the strength of their research rather than a clinical role. Citations are counted by an automated scan of UK press coverage and may be incomplete. Roles, biographies and contact details are researched and human-reviewed before they appear here; anything not yet reviewed is simply absent rather than shown unverified. This profile was last updated on 30 Sept 2026. See the methodology for how this page is built, or email contact@bridgeheadcommunications.com to correct anything on it.