Encyclopedia of Respiratory Medicine

Sam Janes is head of UCL Respiratory and works as a clinical scientist leading a team spanning laboratory work examining the earliest steps of lung cancer development through to screening trials aiming to identify lung cancer as a curable disease. His focus is delivering his work to patients. This has included a novel cell and gene therapy developed in his lab taken through to a first-in-man trial, and recently his work demonstrating the damage caused by tobacco to the normal epithelium of the lung. This work has given us intriguing insights into respiratory biology, potentially demonstrating an unknown power of regeneration in the lung. Most important however was the works global impact on the general public’s awareness of the relentless damage caused by smoking and the crucial message that it is ‘never too late to quit’.

• 1. Scientific Basis of the Respiratory System2. Clinical assessment, Lung anatomy, Lung physiology3. Airways Disease4. Interstitial Lung Disease5. Pleural Disease6. Pulmonary Vascular Disease7. Lung Cancer8. Respiratory Infections9. Sleep10. Respiratory Critical Care11. Lung Transplant12. Pediatrics13. Public Health, Environment, and Occupational Medicine