Prof. Peter Sly University of Queensland, Australia

Professor Peter Sly (MBBS, FRACP, MD, DSc) has an outstanding reputation within Australia and overseas as a researcher into respiratory diseases in children. For the past two decades Professor Sly has led a host of multi-disciplinary collaborations into paediatric respiratory medicine and has been recognised as establishing the first true... read moreprimary prevention study of asthma in the world. Professor Sly is based at the Royal Children's Hospital, the Queensland Children's Medical Research Institute, The University of Queensland. Professor Sly's research aims to understand the mechanisms underlying chronic childhood lung diseases in order to improve clinical management and to delay or prevent the onset of such conditions, with consequent reductions in adult lung diseases.