Ken Donaldson

Ken Donaldson
Professor of Respiratory Toxicology, University of Edinburgh
Keynote Speaker: High aspect ratio nanoparticles

Professor Ken Donaldson is Professor of Respiratory Toxicology at the Respiratory Medicine Unit of the University of Edinburgh (web site). He is also Scientific Director of the Edinburgh Lung and the Environment Group Initiative (ELEGI) Laboratory - a collaborative venture that brings together researchers to work on air pollution and the lung, and a founding member of SnIRC (the Safety of Nanoparticles Interdisciplinary Research Centre). The main diseases that are studied are those caused by cigarette smoke and particles of various sorts.

He has a PhD and a DSc from the University of Edinburgh and a BSc(Hons) (First Class) in Biology from the University of Stirling and is a Fellow of several distinguished societies, including the Royal College of Pathologists. Professor Donaldson has carried out research into the effects of particles and lung disease for 20 years and has co-authored more than 200 published papers and textbook chapters on this area of research.

He sits on the Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollution - an advisory committee of independent experts that provides advice to UK Govt. Departments and Agencies on all matters concerning the potential toxicity and effects upon health of air pollutants (web site). He has provided expert advice to UK and US agencies such as the UK HSE and the US EPA and NIOSH on particles and lung disease.

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