He is an NIHR Senior Investigator, he holds the only Asthma UK Clinical Professorship and is the only Adult Respiratory Researcher in Europe to hold a European Research Council Advanced Investigator Grant. He is past Chairman of the Infection Groups in both the European Respiratory Society and the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and of the Asthma Section, European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
He was Editor of Thorax 2002-2010, is Associate Editor of 3 Respiratory/Allergy Journals and the European Journal of Clinical Investigation and serves on the Editorial Boards of several other respiratory and allergy journals. He has served on several MRC and NIH panels and currently serves on the European Research Council Physiology, Pathophysiology & Endocrinology Board. He receives grant support from the European Research Council (Advanced Research Grant of €2.5m), the MRC (three current grants of ~£1m), the Wellcome Trust (Centre Grant), Asthma UK, British Lung Foundation (Programme Grant), BMA, ERS, EAACI and NIH.