Tariq Sethi

Tariq Sethi is currently Chief Physician Scientist at Astra Zeneca, and Emeritus Professor at Kings College London. Tariq was previously Head of Respiratory Medicine Kings Health Partners / Kings College London and was Professor of Respiratory and Lung Cancer Biology at the University of Edinburgh. He was educated at Cambridge and London Universities followed by junior hospital jobs in London. He gained a PhD at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund London and was subsequently appointed lecturer in Medicine at Edinburgh University. As an MRC Travelling Fellow, he worked at the Scripps Research Institute California, returning to Edinburgh as a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Leave Fellow. His research interests are on the interaction between inflammation and lung cancer, focusing on the regulation of proliferation and apoptosis by growth factor and integrin mediated signalling. He is an author of numerous scientific papers and has edited books on lung cancer.