Fellow

Kenneth Baillie, Professor of Experimental Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, is a global leader in genomics in critical care medicine and respiratory infection. Through his work in genomics, he has made several enduring discoveries including finding multiple human genes that play crucial roles in influenza and Covid pathogenesis. Dr Baillie has worked with WHO on influenza, MERS, Ebola and Covid-19, conceiving and drafting a research protocol for global preparedness and harmonisation that was used for the first clinical description of Covid-19. He also played a leading role in designing, setting up and delivering the studies that discovered the first four effective treatments for critical Covid-19.