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Professor Chambers received her undergraduate degree (BSc Biology) from King’s College London and completed her PhD in Biochemistry at the National Heart and Lung Institute in London in 1995. Her early post-doctoral studies were supported by a personal Wellcome Trust Post-doctoral fellowship with her time divided between UCL and Roche Bioscience (Palo Alto, USA). Upon returning to the UK in 1997, Professor Chambers began to build an independent research programme and was appointed HEFCE Lecturer within the Division of Medicine at UCL in 1998. She was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2002, Reader in 2006 and Professor in 2009. She took on the role of Director of the Centre for Inflammation and Tissue Repair within the UCL Division of Medicine in 2012 and served as Vice-Dean (Innovation and Enterprise) of the Faculty of Medical Sciences from 2013 to 2022. Professor Chambers was appointed Co-Head of the Department of Respiratory Medicine within the Division of Medicine in 2023.