[Perspectives] Ian Pavord: engaging with the eosinophil

It says something for Ian Pavord's modesty, self-confidence, or both that when talking of the insight with which he's most closely associated, he cheerfully volunteers that it was a rediscovery of something first noted more than 50 years ago. In the 1990s, as a consultant respiratory physician and later an honorary professor at the UK's University of Leicester, Pavord was studying eosinophils and inflammation. He'd acquired an interest in the topic during a fellowship at McMaster University in Hamilton, ON, Canada, where he worked for Freddy Hargreave, an inspirational English physician who, Pavord says, “probably trained more professors of respiratory medicine than anyone else in my era”.
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