EVENT: Raine Lecture

William Cookson is Professor of Genomic Medicine at Imperial College London and Head of Respiratory Sciences for the College. He is Head of the Asmarley Centre for Genomic Medicine at the National Heart and Lung Institute. He won a Joint Wellcome Senior Investigator Award with Professor Miriam Moffatt in 2011, and was elected to the College of NIHR Senior Investigators in 2013.

After completing his studies at UWA, Professor Cookson initially trained as a respiratory physician before receiving a D.Phil. in human genetics at Oxford in 1994. He was a Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Oxford between 1998 and 2004. Over the past twenty-five years he and Miriam Moffatt have developed a successful research group devoted to understanding the genetic causes of asthma.

The primary aim of Professor Cookson's visit to Perth is to increase collaborative activities and to enhance core facilities for Genomic Medicine at UWA, with an initial focus on lung diseases.