Wei Shen Lim is a consultant respiratory physician and honorary professor of medicine at

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) is one of England's largest acute teaching trusts. It was established on 1 April 2006 following the merger of Nottingham City Hospital and the Queen's Medical Centre NHS Trusts. They provide acute ...

, England. Lim graduated from

University of Nottingham Medical School The University of Nottingham Medical School is the medical school of the University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK. Its first intake of 48 students graduated in 1975. Student intake has steadily increased to a current level of 330 students per ye ...

in 1991 and has been on the specialist register for General Internal Medicine and Respiratory Medicine since 2002. Since November 2020 or earlier, he has been chairman of the COVID-19 subcommittee of the

Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) is an National Immunization Technical Advisory Group, independent expert advisory committee that advises United Kingdom health departments on immunisation, making recommendations concern ...

which provides advice to the UK government. In 2021 and in 2022, he received more than £25,001 in research funding from vaccine-maker

Pfizer Pfizer Inc. ( ) is an American multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology corporation headquartered on 42nd Street in Manhattan, New York City. The company was established in 1849 in New York by two German entrepreneurs, Charles Pfizer ...

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