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Professor Knight received his BSc Honours degree in Pharmacology and his PhD from The University of Western Australia and undertook post-doctoral training at the University of British Columbia from 1995-1997. From 1997 to 2001 he was a Senior Research Officer in the Asthma & Allergy Research Institute (now the Lung Institute of Western Australia) at The University of Western Australia and was Head of the Experimental Biology division of the Institute from 2002-2004. In 2004, Prof Knight was recruited back to the University of British Columbia as the Canada Research Chair in Airway Disease and Associate Professor of Pharmacology. In 2007, Prof Knight was awarded a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Senior Scholar Career Investigator award. In 2008, he assumed the role of Associate Director of the UBC James Hogg Research Centre and in 2009 was promoted to Full Professor. Professor Knight has published over 110 papers, and has 4300+ citations and a H-index = 36. He is focused on his research interests of pulmonary pharmacology and pathology and how they impact on airway and lung function.