Charles Richard William Beasley is a New Zealand academic physician, the founder and Director of the Medical Research Institute of New Zealand, and as of 2019 is a full professor at the

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Academic career

After studying medicine at the

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, Beasley rose to full professor at

, with connections to Wellington Hospital and the universities of

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and

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. Beasley has received multiple grants from the Health Research Council of New Zealand. In the

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, Beasley was appointed a

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, for services to medical research, in particular asthma. He was elected a

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in 2015. In 2019, he was awarded the Health Research Council of New Zealand 's

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Selected works

* Masoli, Matthew, Denise Fabian, Shaun Holt, Richard Beasley, and Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) Program. "The global burden of asthma: executive summary of the GINA Dissemination Committee report." Allergy 59, no. 5 (2004): 469–478. * Asher, M. I., Ulrich Keil, H. R. Anderson, R. Beasley, J. Crane, Fernando Martinez, E. A. Mitchell, N. Pearce, B. Sibbald, and A. W. Stewart. "International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC): rationale and methods." European respiratory journal 8, no. 3 (1995): 483–491. * Beasley, Richard, William R. Roche, J. Alan Roberts, and Stephen T. Holgate. "Cellular events in the bronchi in mild asthma and after bronchial provocation." American Review of Respiratory Disease 139, no. 3 (1989): 806–817. * Roche, William R., Julie H. Williams, Richard Beasley, and Stephen T. Holgate. "Subepithelial fibrosis in the bronchi of asthmatics." The Lancet 333, no. 8637 (1989): 520–524.

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* Living people University of Otago alumni Academic staff of Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand medical researchers Companions of the New Zealand Order of Merit Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand Year of birth missing (living people) {{NewZealand-academic-bio-stub