aair charity’s
Current Research
The AAIR Charity helps local scientists to leverage such funding by funding pilot projects and pump-priming grants, which help researchers to demonstrate the feasibility and potential of their proposed research work. The Charity also helps to purchase vital pieces equipment and supports the next generation of asthma, allergy and inflammation researchers by funding studentships and bursaries. Since 1991, AAIR has contributed over £6M to these causes.
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