Rate My Professor Andres Floto

Floto's research investigates innate immune responses to bacterial lung pathogens, bacterial genomic evolution during chronic infection and transmission, novel antibiotic and host-directed therapies via forward/reverse genetics, fragment-based discovery, and machine learning, alongside clinical studies on cystic fibrosis, non-CF bronchiectasis, and nontuberculous mycobacterial infections. He holds Wellcome Trust Investigator status and has received the European Respiratory Society Gold Medal (2022), Weber-Parkes Medal from the Royal College of Physicians (2017), European Respiratory Society awards (2022, 2014, 2007), Vertex Innovation Award (2016), Rosetrees Interdisciplinary Prize (2015), BUPA Researcher of the Year (2010), and election as Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (2022). Notable publications include 'Evolution and host-specific adaptation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa' (Science, 2024), 'Stepwise pathogenic evolution of Mycobacterium abscessus' (Science, 2021), 'Emergence and spread of a human-transmissible multidrug-resistant nontuberculous mycobacterium' (Science, 2016), and 'Dendritic cell stimulation by mycobacterial Hsp70 is mediated through CCR5' (Science, 2006). He co-chairs the British Thoracic Society NTM Guidelines Committee, US Cystic Fibrosis Foundation-European Cystic Fibrosis Society NTM Guidelines Group, and European Cystic Fibrosis Society NTM Working Group.