Tariq Sethi MBBS, PhD

Professor Tariq Sethi is Vice President AstraZeneca RIA TMU and Emeritus Professor of Respiratory Medicine Kings College London. Prior to joining AZ he was President-elect of the British Thoracic Society, Head of Respiratory Medicine at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ and King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trusts and Professor of Respiratory Medicine King’s College London and formally Professor at the University of Edinburgh. He was educated at Cambridge and London Universities followed by hospital jobs in London. He did a Ph.D at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund London and was an MRC Travelling Fellow at the Scripps Research Institute California, and a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Leave Fellow. His research interests focus on the interaction between inflammation and lung cancer, Prof. Sethi continues on the editorial board of THORAX and member of the Population Systems Medicine Board Medical Research Council UK and was formally Chair of Asthma (UK) and member of the British Lung Foundation Scientific Committees. Co-Founder of Galecto Biotech.