Clare Lloyd is Professor of Respiratory Immunology at Imperial College London. She has made a series of seminal discoveries that fundamentally change our understanding of the pulmonary immune response to allergens in a career that has spanned academia and industry. Her novel insights into early life pulmonary immunity led to a Strategic Award to investigate immune development and molecular mechanisms underlying wheeze in babies and young children. She has taken significant leadership roles holds key editorial positions on several Journals, and is a council member of the International Society for Mucosal Immunology. She has recently established a Francis Crick Institute satellite attachment, one of only 8 from Imperial College.