Clare Murray

Clare Murray is professor in paediatric respiratory medicine at the University of Manchester and an honorary consultant at Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital. She qualified in Medicine at the University of Edinburgh and completed her MD at the University of Manchester on Environmental allergens and childhood asthma. She is both an active clinician and researcher, focusing on asthma. She heads the paediatric severe asthma service for the North-West of England and is paediatric severe asthma lead for Greater Manchester. She has been actively involved in the Manchester Asthma and Allergy Study for over 20 years (a large birth cohort investigating risk factors for the development of asthma and allergy) and has been chief investigator since 2015. Amongst other research projects she is chief investigator for a large observational study (RADicA) investigating asthma diagnostic pathways and novel asthma diagnostic tests. She chairs the National Institute for Health Research Children’s Respiratory and Cystic Fibrosis Clinical Studies Group and is Children’s Research Network lead for Greater Manchester. She has over 100 peer reviewed publications (H-Index 55).