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Dr. Sarah Walmsley is a professor of respiratory medicine at the University of Edinburgh, an honorary consultant physician at NHS Lothian and dean of research and a director of the Edinburgh Clinical Academic Training Scheme. Walmsley undertook her medical training at the University of Edinburgh graduating in 1997, and an MRC training fellowship at the University of Cambridge with award of her PhD in 2004.

Her specialist training in Respiratory Medicine was in Sheffield, where she also held a Wellcome Intermediate Fellowship, prior to her move to Edinburgh as a Wellcome Senior Clinical Fellow. During this time, Walmsley had two periods of maternity leave. She is currently based in the Centre for Inflammation Research in the Institute for Regeneration and Repair in Edinburgh. Her work is focused on understanding how local oxygen and nutrient availability in the inflamed environment can reprogram neutrophil behaviour in both acute and chronic inflammatory lung disease states.