Research Award: Define the prognostic value of 3-gene signature and their functions in pulmonary fibrosis
Awarded to: Xi Li and Kun Zheng
Amount: £10,000 (June 2024 – June 2026)
Research Award: Identification of epigenetic DNA methylation marks for asthma and allergic sensitization using Oxford Nanopore in IoW F2 generation
Awarded to: Negusse Kitaba and John Holloway
Amount: £9,284.20 (completed September 2025)
Research Award: Factor Inhibiting HIF (FIH) in lung fibroblasts: a determinant of aberrant mesenchymal-epithelial crosstalk?
Awarded to: Siyuan Wang
Amount: £10,000 (June 2022 – June 2024)
Research Award: Uncontrolled Asthma and Related Risk Factors in Children In Ireland
Awarded to: Dr Sarah Lewis
Awarded: October 2024
Research Award: Reducing asthma exacerbations by using short-acting beta agonist prescription alerts to target high risk children: feasibility work
Awarded to: Anna Selby
Amount: £1,380 (May 2022 – Jan 2024)
Research Award: Generation of PCD gene CRISPR Cas9 knock out cell lines
Awarded to: Dr Claire Jackson
Amount: £10,000
Research Award: Expansion of an ex vivo primary respiratory epithelial cell model to facilitate primary ciliary dyskinesia airway research
Awarded to: Dr Claire Jackson
Amount: £8,574 (Feb 2018 – January 2022)
Research Award: Patient-centred composite indices for assessment of response to biological therapy for paediatric and adult severe asthma
Awarded to: Dr Ekaterina Khaleva
Awarded:£7,664 (May 2022 – May 2023)
Research Award: The role of PI3 Kinases during human rhinovirus infection in asthma
Awarded to: Dr Cornelia Blume
Amount: £9,157 (March 2020 – March 2022)
Research Award: Effect of female sex hormones on the antiviral response of the bronchial epithelium
Awarded to: Cornelia Blume
Amount: £10,000
Research Award: miRNAs as potential biomarkers for biologic treatment response in severe asthma patients
Awarded to: Elena Vorobeva
Amount: £9,831
PhD Studentship: The contribution of mast cells to rhinovirus infections in asthma
Awarded to: Emily Swindle and D.E. Davies
Amount: £27,000 (October 2013 – September 2016)
PhD Studentship: Information provision preferences of food allergic and intolerant consumers when eating
Awarded to: Jane Lucas
Amount: £11,800 (March 2014 – March 2017).
Stephen Holgate PhD Studentship: The role of ADAM33 in pre- and perinatal airway remodelling and the early life development of asthma
Awarded to: Hans Michael Haitchi, C. Woelk and J. Kelly
Amount: £58,100 (additional University of Southampton, Faculty of Medicine funding £48,100) (October 2014 – October 2018).
Research Award: ADAM33 inhibitor and crystal structure project
Awarded to: Hans Michael Haitchi
Amount: £23,100
Research Award: Assessing the correlation between immune statues and asthma: from birth to early childhood study
Awarded to: Aref Kyyaly
Amount: £8,600
Research Award: Assessment of Bronchial Hyper-reactivity in the Isle of Wight Birth Cohort at 26-years to Support Characterisation of Asthma Remission and Persistence from Childhood to Adulthood
Awarded to: Ramesh J Kurukulaaratchy
Amount: £10,000
Research Award: Assessment of the asthma specific emotional profile in individuals with asthma and their partners
Awarded to: Judit Varkonyi-Sepp and P. Howarth
Amount: £8,321
Research Award: Can we treat Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) patients by promoting autophagy (“self-eating”)?
Awarded to: Yihau Wang
Amount: £10,000
Research Award: Development and validation of age specific health related quality of life measures for patients with primary ciliary dyskinesia
Awarded to: Laura Behan and J. Lucas
Amount: £9,000
Research Award: Do fibrous mineral dust particles elicit a pro-fibrotic response in a conditioned medium model of the distal airways?
Awarded to: R. Latouche, D. Smart and M. Loxham
Amount: £7,528
Research Award: Initial Characterisation of Difficult Asthma in the WATCH Study – Baseline Assessment
Awarded to: Ramesh J Kurukulaaratchy
Amount: £3,500
Research Award: Investigating cellular cross talk in the airway epithelial mesenchymal trophic unit following viral infection
Awarded to: Cornelia Blume and E. Swindle
Amount: £5,350
Research Award: Reducing Worry in Asthma Patients (REWRAP)
Awarded to: Ben Ainsworth
Amount: £6,272
Research Award: The Role of CDHR3 in epithelial barrier function in asthma
Awarded to: Donna Davies, A. Mudher and J. Collins
Amount: £9,934
Research Award: The role of pericytes in ADAM33 induced airway remodelling in asthma
Awarded to: Hans Michael Haitchi
Amount: £11,762
Research Award: Investigating whether a species-dependent rhinovirus response in infected cells might be linked to respiratory disease outcome
Awarded to: Christopher McCormick and D. Davies
Amount: £9,968
Research Award: Evaluation of alternatively spliced Th2–related genes in alveolar macrophages and bronchial epithelial cells by Frac-seq, to investigate their influence on the modulation of proteomic output and relationship to disease severity in asthma
Awarded to: R. T. Martinez-Nunez
Amount: £10,000
Research Equipment: Centrifuge Heraeus Megafuge 40R
Awarded to: Rose-Marie Mackay, A. Walls, A. Postle, J. Madsen, H. Clark, P. Howarth
Amount: £3,400
Research Equipment: FilmArray: multiplex rapid PCR system
Awarded to: Tristan Clark and N. Brendish
Amount: £10,000
Research Equipment: Meso Quickplex SQ120
Awarded to: Laure Lau, P. Howarth, H. Arshad, A. Walls and H. M. Haitchi
Amount: £10,000
Travel Grant: Travel Fellowship for training in RNA-Seq Analysis of Lungs from Transgenic Mice Expressing Human ADAM33 pro and Metalloprotease Domains – A Model for Asthmatic Airway Remodelling
Awarded to: Joanne Kelly and H. M. Haitchi
Amount: £1,653