My name is Clive Page and I am a Professor of Pharmacology at King’s College London and Director of the Sackler Institute of Pulmonary Pharmacology, King’s College London. I have spent my career working on understanding why people have asthma and other inflammatory diseases of the lung. I have also been very interested in the treatment of these diseases and have been involved in the discovery and development of a new drug for the treatment of asthma and COPD (smokers disease), RPL554, which is currently in clinical trials. I recently gave the 81st Stephen Paget Memorial Lecture about the role animals have played in the development of medicines to treat asthma. I have always advocated openness in discussing the role of animals in research and have contributed widely to the public debate about this important issue. This is my first AMA, I’m here to talk about asthma and other inflammatory diseases of the lung, the treatment of these diseases, and how animal research plays an important role, so Ask Me Anything! This AMA has been organised by Understanding Animal Research. Thanks for your questions and I hope the information supplied is of some help