Ashley Woodcock MD, MBChB, FERS, FFPM, FMedSci, FRCP

Ashley Woodcock is a Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the University of Manchester. His work has focused on understanding the role of environmental factors in driving asthma. He has undertaken complex and difficult clinical trials on primary and secondary allergen avoidance as an approach to the prevention of asthma and showed that these measures increased rather than decreased allergen sensitization. More recently his research has concerned gene-environmental interactions in early childhood asthma. In Manchester, he has developed an environment where young scientists are flourishing and developing studies of chronic cough, fungal lung diseases, cystic fibrosis, and COPD. Another rather different contribution is his chairmanship of the Montreal Protocol concerning the removal of chlorofluorocarbons.