Professor
National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London
Professor Eric Alton FRCP, FMedSci
Eric is Professor of Gene Therapy and Respiratory Medicine at Imperial College, London, an Honorary Consultant Physician at the Royal Brompton Hospital and an NIHR Senior Investigator. Over the last 20 years he has coordinated the UK Respiratory Gene Therapy Consortium, which brings together all the key centres in the UK (Edinburgh and Oxford Universities and Imperial College, London) in a programme to deliver gene therapy for people with CF and other conditions. He is also the Chair of the UK Advanced Therapies Medicinal Products Coordinating Group which has pulled together all of the key stakeholders in the field to catalyse coordination and avoid duplication.