Adriano Rossi
Professor
Prof Rossi obtained a BSc (Hons) degree in Pharmacology (1984) and a PhD degree (1987) from the Department of Pharmacology, University of Glasgow and carried out postdoctoral research at Wake Forest University, North Carolina, USA. He held a Wellcome Trust Post-Doctoral grant and lectureship in the Department of Applied Pharmacology (NHLI, University of London). Following some time in the pharmaceutical industry he joined the Respiratory Medicine Unit, University of Edinburgh. He holds a Personal Chair in Respiratory and Inflammation Pharmacology and is Programme Leader of the “Tissue Remodelling and Regeneration” theme in the MRC-Centre for Inflammation Research (University of Edinburgh). He was awarded a DSc degree (2010) and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology and of the British Pharmacological Society. Professor Rossi’s major research aims are to gain a better understanding of the inflammatory processes, especially the mechanisms involved in the resolution of inflammation, tissue repair and regeneration with a view to help develop novel therapies for chronic inflammatory and fibrotic diseases. He has published over 210 peer-reviewed articles and held many major grants.
