Bo Chawes
Professor of Paediatrics, MD, PhD, DMSc
Bo Chawes received his medical degree from the University of Copenhagen in 2005, specialization in pediatrics in 2016, he became associate professor in 2018, and has been clinical professor of pediatrics since 2022.
Bo joined the COPSAC research team in 2007, finished his PhD in 2010 entitled: “Upper and Lower Airway Pathology in Young Children with Allergic and Non-allergic Rhinitis” and his DMSc thesis in 2016 entitled: “Low-Grade Disease Activity in Early Life Precedes Childhood Asthma and Allergy“.
In 2016-17 he worked for 1 year as postdoctoral visiting scientist in the lab of Scott Weiss, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Today Bo is professor of pediatrics with special responsibilities in asthma and allergy. Bo has a clinical research track including half time clinical work at the Dept. of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, and half time research at COPSAC.
Bo Chawes’ research focuses on understanding the mechanisms of asthma inception in order to improve primary prevention of disease, utilizing data from the clinical birth cohorts at COPSAC and translating the findings into clinical practice in observational real-life studies and randomized controlled trials in patient cohorts. His research areas include: vitamin D, early life airway and systemic inflammation, lung function, and metabolomics.
Bo has received several prestigious awards for his research:
- The Danish Birgit & Svend Igor Pock-Steen Award in 2010
- The German Klosterfrau Research Award for Airway Diseases in Childhood in 2012
- The American Thrasher Research Foundation Early-career Award in 2014
- The international Long-term Research Fellowship from the European Respiratory Society in 2016
In 2020 he received an ERC Starting Grant for the DEFEND project.
Bo is leading the metabolomics group at COPSAC and supervisor for several MD and non-MD PhD students and postdocs.
