Parameswaran Nair is the Frederick E. Hargreave Teva Innovation Chair in Airway Diseases and Professor of Medicine at McMaster University, and an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at McGill University. At the Firestone Institute of Respiratory Health of St Joseph’s healthcare Hamilton, over two decades, he has directed a patient-centred translational research program that directly benefits patients with severe asthma and other complex airway diseases. As an internationally recognized researcher in the use of biologics to treat asthma, and as a caring clinician and educator, his research has brought relief and hope to patients from across Canada and elsewhere.