A/Prof Chotirmall is an internationally recognised clinician-scientist with an established translational respiratory research group at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University Singapore. He has performed key work in bronchiectasis and pulmonary infection, including the use of next-generation sequencing in the context of chronic inflammatory respiratory diseases, leading to over 240 peer-reviewed publications in leading journals including Nature Medicine, the New England Journal of Medicine, Cell Host and Microbe, Nature Microbiology, the European Respiratory Journal, and the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. He serves as Consultant at Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Vice Dean (Research) at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University Singapore, and Deputy Editor of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.