Director of the Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Heart & Lung Research Institute and Professor of Intensive Care Medicine, University of Cambridge

Charlotte graduated in both Biomedical Sciences and Medicine from the University of Southampton, and later undertook a PhD at the University of Cambridge investigating the role of neutrophils (a type of white blood cell) in causing acute lung inflammation, alongside specialist clinical training in Respiratory (Cambridge) and Intensive Care Medicine (London). She was subsequently appointed as the UK’s first NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Intensive Care Medicine, and went on to be awarded a Fulbright All-disciplines Scholar Award and a Wellcome Trust Fellowship for Postdoctoral Clinician Scientists. Charlotte joined the University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine in 2015 from University of California, San Francisco, where she established a research group focusing on understanding the mechanisms underlying pneumonia and its more severe form, acute respiratory distress syndrome, and the translation of those insights into clinical benefits for patients.

In 2022, Charlotte was appointed as Director of the newly opened Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Heart & Lung Research Institute, a new University-NHS collaboration bringing together 450 population health, laboratory, and clinical researchers, with patients and their families, the NHS, commercial, and charitable sectors to improve cardiovascular and lung health for everyone, no matter where they live.