Funding awarded

Following open competition, the theme has made the following awards:

2020

Dr Gillian Tomlinson

Immune pathogenesis of post-COVID-19 lung disease

Dr Gabriele Pollara 

Macrophages as drivers of immunopathogenesis in COVID-19

Prof Jerry Brown Interstitial lung disease in the After COVID-19 Recovery clinical cohort
Dr Coziana Ciurtin Investigating the role of CD8+ T-cell inflammation and atherosclerosis in autoimmunity
Prof Liz Jury Using multi-omic analysis to predict immunogenicity to biological therapies in autoimmunity

2019

Mr Harley Buck, Prof Emma Morris

Defining the transcriptional profile of limbal epithelial stem cells by RNA sequencing analysis

Prof Emma Morris, Dr Rachel Brown

Understanding T cell immunity in anti-NMDAR encephalitis: Developing therapeutic tools for neurological autoimmunity

Prof Rachel Chambers, Dr Manuela Plate, Dr Robert Hynds

Establishing a robust scientific rationale for progressing ATP-competitive mTOR inhibitors as a novel anti-fibrotic strategy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

Dr Vincent Muczynski, Prof Amit Nathwani

A next generation bispecific antibody with an “off-switch” for a controlled treatment of haemophilia A

Dr Alastair O'Brien

Repurposing of Simvastatin as an immune-restorative therapy in advanced liver disease

Dr Venkat Reddy

Understanding the Mechanisms of Refractory Systemic Lupus Erythematosus to Stratify Patients for Novel B-cell Targeted Therapies

Prof Margaret Hall-Craggs, Dr Alan Bainbridge, Dr Timothy Bray

Optimisation of a multiparametric, quantitative MRI tool for assessment of bone and joint health in inflammatory disease

Prof Mike Ehrenstein, Prof Richard Jenner, Prof Javier Herrero

Anti-TNF as a molecular scalpel to understand and exploit regulatory T cells for therapy in rheumatoid arthritis

Prof Sergio Quezada, Dr Paul Mulholland

Mapping the immune landscape to develop novel therapies for glioblastoma

Prof Richard Jenner, Richard Angell, Dr Sally Oxenford

Target identification for a novel therapeutic agent for inflammatory bowel disease

Prof Stephen Pereira, Dr Douglas Thorburn, Dr Pilar Acedo-Nunez, Dr John Timms, Prof Massimo Pinzani

Enhanced liver fibrosis and cholangiocarcinoma in primary sclerosing cholangitis (ELF-CCA-PSC study)

Prof Ronjon Chakraverty

A Human Cell Atlas of Graft-versus-Host-Disease

Dr Reza Motallebzadeh

Integrating immunological, metabolite and microbiome data to predict clinical outcomes in kidney transplantation

Dr Fausto Andreola, Prof Rajiv Jalan and Dr Gautam Mehta

Glucocorticoid receptor: A novel biomarker and therapeutic target in acute alcoholic hepatitis

Prof Krista Rombouts

Identification and validation of targets for novel therapies in PNPLA3 SNP - variant primary Human Hepatic Stellate cells in liver disease

2018

Dr Timothy Bray, Dr Coziana Ciurtin

Quantitative Imaging Biomarkers of Skeletal Inflammation: Biological Validation and Response Prediction

Prof Jeremy Brown

Functional consequences of B cell depletion therapy on adaptive immunity to Streptococcus pneumoniae

Dr Siobhan Burns, Dr Steven Henson

Functional modelling of novel STAT1 variants amenable to gene editing

Dr Coziana Ciurtin, Dr Liz Jury

Endotyping systemic lupus erythematosus and Sjogren's syndrome in adult a, adolescent and paediatric populations for precision medicine therapeutic approaches - The NUANCE study

Dr Ines Pineda-Torra, Dr Liz Jury, Prof Anisur Rahman and Dr Reecha Sofat

Interferon regulation of lipid metabolism in autoimmunity: towards patient stratification and identification of novel targets for cardiovascular risk in SLE

Prof Joanna Porter

Neutrophil activation as a biomarker and therapeutic target in interstitial lung

Dr Laura Shallcross

Precision prescribing for clinical infection syndromes (PRECISE)

Dr Reecha Sofat

Determining the clinical utility of measuring complement factor H