Prof. Charles Pusey Imperial College London, UK

Charles Pusey qualified from Cambridge University and Guy’s Hospital London and, after early appointments at Guy’s, joined the Royal Air Force, where he gained experience in General Medicine and Renal Medicine. On leaving the RAF, he moved to Hammersmith Hospital as Senior Registrar in Renal and General Medicine to Professor... read moreKeith Peters. He started his research on a MRC Clinical Research Training Fellowship and was subsequently awarded a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship. This led to his appointment as Senior Lecturer at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, later merged with Imperial College London. He was appointed Professor of Medicine at Imperial in 2003, and became Emeritus Professor of Medicine in 2020.

Charles was active in clinical practice in all aspects of renal medicine, led a large multidisciplinary vasculitis service, and contributed to the general medicine service for many years. He has continued both clinical and laboratory-based research in parallel, and his work has focused on autoimmunity and inflammation in renal disease, including the mechanisms underlying primary and secondary glomerulonephritis. He has helped to develop and taken part in many of the multicentre trials in ANCA-associated vasculitis. He has published over 500 articles on renal disease, mainly on glomerulonephritis, vasculitis and anti-GBM disease, and contributed chapters to the major textbooks on renal and general medicine.