Summary
Eric Alton is Professor of Gene Therapy and Respiratory Medicine, National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London and Honorary Consultant Physician, Royal Brompton Hospital
Professor Alton was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge and Westminster Medical School and subsequently undertook six years of general medical training. Over the last fifteen years, he has been involved in developing gene therapy for cystic fibrosis and angiogenesis, including three clinical trials.
Professor Alton coordinates the UK CF Gene Therapy Consortium which brings together the three centres in the UK (Edinburgh and Oxford Universities and Imperial College), including approximately 80 clinicians and scientists focused on this problem.
Publications
Journals
Thursfield RM, Naderi K, Leaver N, et al., 2018, Children with cystic fibrosis demonstrate no respiratory immunological, infective or physiological, consequences of vitamin D deficiency, Journal of Cystic Fibrosis, Vol:17, ISSN:1569-1993, Pages:657-665
Paul-Smith MC, Pytel KM, Gelinas J-F, et al., 2018, The murine lung as a factory to produce secreted intrapulmonary and circulatory proteins, Gene Therapy, Vol:25, ISSN:0969-7128, Pages:345-358
Bardin EE, Cameron SJS, Perdones-Montero A, et al., 2018, Metabolic Phenotyping and Strain Characterisation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolates from Cystic Fibrosis Patients Using Rapid Evaporative Ionisation Mass Spectrometry, Scientific Reports, Vol:8, ISSN:2045-2322
Conference
Clarke N, Saleh A, Meng C, et al., 2018, Validation of a PCR-based assay to quantify lentiviral vector shedding in human body fluids, Annual Conference of the British-Society-for-Gene-and-Cell-Therapy, MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC, Pages:A11-A11, ISSN:1043-0342
Lund-Palau H, Pilou A, Atsumi N, et al., 2018, Lentivirus GM-CSF gene therapy for autoimmune pulmonary alveolar proteinosis, Annual Conference of the British-Society-for-Gene-and-Cell-Therapy, MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC, Pages:A2-A2, ISSN:1043-0342