Annual Margaret Turner-Warwick Respiratory Lecture
The Annual Margaret Turner-Warwick Respiratory Lecture was founded in 2006 as a collaboration between the National Heart and Lung Institute and the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust.
The lecture is run annually, normally in March and is held in the Paul Wood Lecture Theatre, at the Royal Brompton Campus of the National Heart and Lung Institute.
It is sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline, the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, and the National Heart and Lung Institute.
2012 - Professor John West
2012's lecture will be presented by Professor John West, Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Physiology, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, USA.
Professor West will present his talk entitled 'The Human Lung: Did Evolution Get it Wrong?' on Wednesday 13 June 2012.
The lecture will take place from 5.30pm in the Paul Wood Lecture Theatre, NHLI Education Centre, National Heart and Lung Institute, Guy Scadding Building, Royal Brompton Campus.
The lecture will be preceded by a tea and coffee reception at 5pm in the Refectory of the NHLI Education Centre.
2011 - Professor Emeritus Ewald R. Weibel
2011's Annual Margaret Turner-Warwick Respiratory Lecture was presented by Professor Emeritus Ewald R. Weibel Dr.med. D.Sc(hon), Institut für Anatomie, Universität Bern.
Professor Weibel presented his talk entitled 'What Makes a Good Lung? The Structural Basis of Pulmonary Gas Exchange.' on Wednesday 16 March 2011.
2010 - Professor Robert Strieter
The Fifth Annual Margaret Turner-Warwick Respiratory Lecture was presented by Professor Robert Strieter, Henry B. Mulholland Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
Professor Strieter presented his talk entitled 'The role of vascular remodeling and fibrocytes in pulmonary fibrosis' on Wednesday 17 March 2010.
2009 - Professor Bart Lambrecht
2009's lecture was presented by Professor Bart Lambrecht, Professor of Pulmonary diseases, Head of the Laboratory of Immunoregulation and Mocusal Immunology, University Hospital Ghent, Belgium. Professor Lambrecht presented his talk entitled 'Targeting dendritic cells to better understand and treat allergic asthma' on Wednesday 11 March 2009.
2008 - Professor Patrick Holt
The third Annual Margaret Turner-Warwick Respiratory Lecture was held on Wednesday 12 March 2008.
The lecture entitled: ‘Aetiology and pathogenesis of persistent asthma: new insights into adult disease from studies in children’ was presented by Professor Patrick G. Holt, Head, Division of Cell Biology, Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, West Perth, Western Australia
2007 - Professor Richard Boucher
Professor Richard Boucher honoured the second lecture, with his talk entitled 'Advances in cystic fibrosis research' on Wednesday 14 March 2007. Professor Boucher is Kenan Professor of Medicine, Director, Cystic Fibrosis/Pulmonary Research & Treatment Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.
2006 - Professor Jim Hogg
Professor Jim Hogg, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada presented the inaugural Annual Margaret Turner-Warwick Respiratory Lecture. His talk which took place on Wednesday 8 March 2006, was entitled 'The Nature of Airflow Limitation in COPD' and was held in the memory of Dr James Palmer.
The lecture was chaired by Professor Sir Anthony Newman Taylor and Professor Michael Gatzoulis presented the vote of thanks.
