City St George's, University of London
Deborah Baines PhD is Professor of Molecular Physiology in the Institute of Infection and Immunity at City St George's, University of London, UK. She was awarded a PhD from the University of Bristol, UK. Following this she worked for a biotech company as a Senior Scientist before moving to the University of Dundee as a postdoctoral researcher. In 2000, she was appointed as a Tenure Track Scientist at St George’s, University of London and in 2013 she was promoted to full Professor. She has spent most of her career working in airway epithelial ion and solute transport and has over 100 publications to her name. In 2021 she was awarded the Hans Ussing Prize Lecture at Experimental Biology in recognition of her work in the field. She currently leads a translational research group and was one of the first to study the effect of hyperglycaemia (associated with diabetes) in the airway. Recently she has been a PI on two Strategic Research Centre grants funded by the Cystic Fibrosis Trust, developing CRISPR gene editing therapies for cystic fibrosis and leads a Cystic Fibrosis Foundation funded project to deliver novel CFTR mRNA gene therapies to the airway using nanoparticles. Her group incorporates expertise in microbiology, in vitro cell biology, in vivo models of lung disease, in vivo human physiology and pharmacology, observational and interventional clinical studies. She has also had productive collaborations with the pharmaceutical industry. In 2017, she was elected a Trustee and Fellow of the Physiological Society and was Chair of the Publications Committee (responsible for The Journal of Physiology, Experimental Physiology and Physiological Reports) until 2022. She remains a Fellow of the Physiological society and is an editorial Board Member of the American Journal of Physiology- Cell and Molecular Physiology. She was a member of the European Cystic Fibrosis Society scientific organising committee 2020-2023.
Thursday, October 23, 2025
10:15 AM - 12:15 PM PDT