Rate My Professor Alexandra Santos

In leadership capacities, Professor Santos holds the position of School Academic Lead for Research and Impact at King’s College London. She chairs the Board of the Food Allergy Interest Group within the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) and is spearheading the forthcoming EAACI Food Allergy Guidelines. Her scholarly achievements have earned her multiple accolades from the Medical Research Council, including the Clinical Research Training Fellowship, Centenary Early Career Award, Clinician Scientist Fellowship, and Transition Fellowship. As principal investigator, she has obtained grants from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases via the Immune Tolerance Network for the LEAP study on peanut allergy prevention, Food Allergy Research and Education, the Wellcome Trust, the European Commission, and Asthma UK for the Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma. She belongs to the inaugural cohort of the Academy of Medical Sciences Sustain Programme. Key publications include co-authorship on the landmark 'Randomized trial of peanut consumption in infants at risk for peanut allergy' (New England Journal of Medicine, 2015), EAACI Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Guidelines (2014), Anaphylaxis Guidelines (2014), and International Consensus on Allergy Immunotherapy (2015), amassing over 14,000 citations and profoundly shaping paediatric allergy research and clinical guidelines worldwide.