

Professor Gisli Jenkins
NIHR Research Professor and Margaret Turner Warwick Chair of Thoracic Medicine. Head of Margaret Turner Warwick Centre for Fibrosing Lung Disease,
National Heart and Lung Institute,Imperial College London,
Professor Gisli Jenkins is an NIHR Research Professor and holds the Margaret Turner-Warwick Chair of Thoracic Medicine at Imperial College London. He is based at the Guy Scadding Building at the Brompton Campus where he is Head of the Margaret Turner-Warwick Centre for Fibrosing Lung Diseases at the National Heart and Lung Institute. Gisli also holds Honorary contracts with the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust and with the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
Prof Jenkins' research focuses on Interstitial Lung Diseases, and Pulmonary Fibrosis in particular. His team works to understand the biological basis for the development of pulmonary fibrosis and aims to translate this understanding in to improved outcomes for patients. He is the Principal Investigator of a number of longitudinal observational studies including the PROFILE study, the INJUSTIS Study, the UKILD Post COVID ILD study as well as the DEMISTIFI Multi-Morbidity consortium. He is the pulmonary fibrosis working group lead for the Genomics England Clinical Interpretation Partnership in Respiratory Medicine, the PHOSP-COVID study and the HEAL COVID platform study.
Prof Jenkins was awarded the ERS Gold Medal in Interstitial Lung Disease in 2020. In 2022 he became a Fellow of the European Respiratory Society, and appointed President of Action for Pulmonary Fibrosis and has been awarded the BTS Meritorious Service Award for 2022.