Clare Lloyd is Head of the Respiratory Division at the National Heart & Lung Institute in London. She trained in immunology at Kings College London and undertook Postdoctoral research at Guys Hospital London and Harvard Medical School, Boston. She worked in a Biotech company in Cambridge USA, investigating the functions of type2 molecules in different disease models. She returned to the UK to start her own group and has been funded by serial Wellcome Trust Senior Fellowships. Clare’s research examines the mechanisms underlying the immune response to inhaled allergens, pathogens and pollutants.  Work in her lab investigates how the immune system senses the inhaled environment, examining how different stimuli influence development of pulmonary inflammation and tissue remodelling across the life course, using mouse models, imaging, cell biology and transcriptomics. She is Vice Dean for People & Culture in the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College, taking leading on EDI and career development. Clare is an elected fellow of the Royal Academy of Medical Sciences.