The Professor Gavin Donaldson Memorial Fund has been set up to enable family, friends, colleagues, patients, current and former students to give in memory of Gavin Donaldson, Emeritus Professor of Respiratory Studies at Imperial’s National Heart and Lung Institute, who sadly passed away in February 2023.

The fund has been established to carry forward Gavin's legacy through future generations of students and researchers. The proceeds of the fund will be used to support and encourage future PhD students or early career researchers to attend the American Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society meetings.

Gavin was a remarkable and gifted scientist, who lived for his work and was admired through the respiratory scientific community. He was intimately involved in establishing the famous ‘London Exacerbation Cohort’ that is internationally recognised and continues to this day. 

Gavin was exceptionally good at managing and analysing complex data, and his skills were instrumental in the development of the more recent UK Early COPD Cohort, which is the first cohort worldwide studying the early development of COPD. Gavin was also very involved in clinical trial analysis, most recently in the COVID PIONEER therapy trial with Professor Pallav Shah. He also served for 8 years as the statistical editor of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine and was much valued for his expertise by the editorial team. 

Gavin was a great team player and always prepared to help anyone who came to his office with issues with data analysis and he gave much valuable advice to the members of the research group. 

 We will miss him, very much.

Offline donations

For offline donations, please make cheques payable to 'Imperial College London' and quote 'Professor Donaldson - Memorial Fund' on the back. Please post to the following address:

M Bel, Head of Gift Accounting 
Advancement Division
Imperial College London
1st Floor Faculty Building
South Kensington Campus
London, SW7 2AZ

Thank you in advance for any donations.