David Thickett

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David Thickett’s research interests are predominantly in the areas of primary lung epithelial and macrophage biology, murine models of acute lung injury, epithelial mesenchymal transition and translational clinical trials to prevent and treat acute lung injury and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. He has been and continues to be a co-investigator or principal investigator on a number of clinical trials successfully obtaining an MRC DCS grant for 2 clinical trials of vitamin D therapy to prevent lung injury following oesophagectomy.

Dr Thickett is currently involved in the following studies:

Translational science lead, chairman of clinical endpoints committee and steering group member for BALTI- PREVENTION
PI of a phase II trial of simvastatin in healthy elderly patients
PI of a phase II study of the pharmcogenetics of vitamin D replacement in tuberculosis
PI of a phase II open label dosing study of vitamin D following oesophagectomy
The PI of a phase II study vitamin D to prevent acute lung injury following oesophagectomy (VINDALOO)

1997 …2024

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Dhruv Parekh

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Fang Gao Smith

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Elizabeth Sapey

  • Inflammation and Ageing - Director of the Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, Professor in Acute Respiratory Medicine

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Babu Naidu

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Alice Turner

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Jon Hazeldine

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Sian Lax

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Martin Hewison

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James Scriven

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Benjamin Fisher

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Julian Bion

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Simon Gates

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Lorraine Harper

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Anna Rowe

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Pamela Kearns

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Shaun Thein

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Rowan Hardy

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Paul Harrison

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Steve Watson

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Philip Newsome

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Joseph Alderman

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Joshua Savage

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Neil Hanley

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Sarah Bowden

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Kirsty McGee

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Alan McNally

  • Microbiology and Infection - Professor of Microbial Evolutionary Genomics, Institute Director in the Institute of Microbiology and Infection

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Ruth Benson

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Alba Llibre

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Nicholas Barnes

  • Pharmacy - Professor of Neuropharmacology

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Athiveeraramapandian Prabu

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Matthew O'Shea

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Tina Tang

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Thomas Pinkney

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Adam Croft

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Gavin D Perkins

  • University of Warwick
  • Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust
  • Birmingham Heartlands Hospital
  • Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham

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Joanna C. Porter

  • Imperial College London
  • University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Ling-Pei Ho

  • University of Oxford
  • Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • Churchill Hospital

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William D Fraser

  • University of East Anglia

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Daniel F. Mcauley

  • Royal Victoria Hospital
  • Queen's University, Belfast

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Sarah E Lamb

  • University of Oxford
  • University of Warwick
  • John Radcliffe Hospital

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Rachel C Chambers

  • Imperial College London

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Mark S Cooper

  • University of Sydney
  • ANZAC Research Institute

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Mark G Jones

  • Keele University
  • University of Southampton
  • University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

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Michael A Gibbons

  • Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust

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Philip L Molyneaux

  • Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust
  • Imperial College London

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Peter M George

  • Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust
  • Imperial College London

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Annemarie B Docherty

  • University of Edinburgh
  • Western General Hospitals NHS Trust
  • Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

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Emma K. Denneny

  • Imperial College London
  • University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Laura Fabbri

  • Imperial College London

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Toby E. Hillman

  • University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Jennifer K. Quint

  • Imperial College London

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SJ Christie

  • Manchester Metropolitan University

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J Kenneth Baillie

  • University of Edinburgh
  • King’s College London
  • University of Edinburgh and Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh

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Ian P. Hall

  • University of Nottingham

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Matthew J Rowland

  • Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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John F Blaikley

  • University of Manchester
  • Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Puja Mehta

  • King’s College London
  • University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • Imperial College London
  • Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

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Ewen M. Harrison

  • University of Edinburgh
  • Western General Hospitals NHS Trust

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Stephen M. Bianchi

  • Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Guilhem Collier

  • University of Sheffield

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Nazia Chaudhuri

  • Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Fergus Gleeson

  • Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • University of Oxford

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Iain D Stewart

  • Imperial College London

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R. Gisli Jenkins

  • University of Nottingham
  • Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and the University of Nottingham
  • Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust
  • Imperial College London

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Bibek Gooptu

  • University of Leicester

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Paul Beirne

  • Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

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Shaney L. Barratt

  • North Bristol NHS Trust

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Ehab Bishay

  • University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

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Lisa G. Spencer

  • Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Richard J. Allen

  • University of Leicester

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Karen Piper-Hanley

  • Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research
  • Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • University of Manchester

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Manuela Platé

  • University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • Imperial College London

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Karin Amrein

  • Medical University of Graz

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Fasihul Khan

  • University of Nottingham

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Joseph Jacob

  • University College London
  • Harvard Medical School
  • Imperial College London

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Helen Parfrey

  • Papworth Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust
  • Royal Papworth Hospital

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Graham Cooke

  • University of Oxford
  • Imperial College London

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Pilar Rivera-Ortega

  • Wythenshawe Hospital
  • Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Theofano Tikka

  • INTEGRATE (UK ENT Trainee Research Network)
  • Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Glasgow

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Peter Nightingale

  • Institute of Translational Medicine Birmingham (ITM)
  • Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham
  • Queen Elizabeth Hospital

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Helen McShane

  • Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine
  • John Radcliffe Hospital
  • University of Oxford

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Rod Lawson

  • Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Simon R. Johnson

  • Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • University of Nottingham

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Adrian R Martineau

  • Queen Mary, University of London

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Melissa Heightman

  • University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Victoria C Harris

  • University of Leicester
  • University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
  • Leicester NIHR Biomedical Research Centre

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George Margaritopoulos

  • Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust

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Thomas M. Drake

  • Western General Hospitals NHS Trust

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Christopher Coleman

  • University of Nottingham

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Jonathan Tang

  • University of East Anglia

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Luke Rogers

  • Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

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Robert West

  • University College London
  • University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Ann-Marie Swart

  • University of East Anglia

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Miklos Nyitrai

  • University of Pécs

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Iyad Ismail

  • Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust

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Sarah Agnew

  • Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Rachael A Evans

  • University of Leicester
  • Leicester NIHR Biomedical Research Centre

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Chris E. Brightling

  • University of Leicester

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Dan G. Wootton

  • Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • University of Liverpool

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Andrew Robinson

  • Heartlands Hosp

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Alexander Weich

  • University of Pécs

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Nick Screaton

  • Papworth Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust

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Sarah Watson

  • NHS England

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Richard D. Thompson

  • Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham

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Linzy Houchen-Wollof

  • Leicester NIHR Biomedical Research Centre

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Louise V. Wain

  • University of Leicester

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Judit E. Pongracz

  • University of Pécs

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Krisztian Kvell

  • University of Pécs

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Shenxing Zheng

  • Department of Anaesthesiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital & Yuying Children Hospital of

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Mansoor Bangnash

  • Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham

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Shahab Aslani

  • Imperial College London

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Jan O. Jansen

  • University of Aberdeen

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James D. Chalmers

  • University of Dundee

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Krisnah Poinasamy

  • Asthma and Lung UK
  • Asthma + Lung UK

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Clare Kendall

  • North Bristol NHS Trust

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M. Takata

  • Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
  • Tokyo Metropolitan University

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Allan B Clark

  • University of East Anglia

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S Chatterjee

  • Tata Medical Center

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Ann B. Millar

  • University of Bristol
  • Newcastle University

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Duncan B Richards

  • University of Oxford

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Sian Hughes

  • Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham

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Alexander Horsley

  • University of Manchester
  • South Manchester University Hospital

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Beatriz Guillen Guio

  • University of Leicester

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Ganesh Raghu

  • University of Washington

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Mark Everard Weeks

  • Imperial College London

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Hamish J. C. McAuley

  • University of Leicester
  • Leicester NIHR Biomedical Research Centre

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Laszlo Jakab

  • University of Pécs

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Simon L.F. Walsh

  • Imperial College London

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Darragh Duffy

  • Institut Pasteur

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Justin Varney

  • Birmingham City Council

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Qinquan Lian

  • Department of Anaesthesiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital & Yuying Children Hospital of

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A John Simpson

  • Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
  • Newcastle University

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Jonathan Brooke

  • Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
  • University of Nottingham

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Nazir I. Lone

  • University of Edinburgh
  • NHS Lothian
  • Western General Hospitals NHS Trust

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Julia Bott

  • Respiratory Care Team
  • Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust

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Charlotte E Kelly

  • Hull York Medical School

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Elisabetta A. Renzoni

  • Imperial College London
  • Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust

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Joyce Yeung

  • University of Warwick

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Stefan C Stanel

  • Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • University of Manchester

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Judit Rapp

  • University of Pécs

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John Pear

  • University of Leicester

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Malcolm G Semple

  • University of Liverpool

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A.A. Roger Thompson

  • University of Sheffield

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S Gates

  • University of Warwick

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Nicholas D. Weatherley

  • University of Sheffield

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Jane A. Mitchell

  • Imperial College London

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Gerald Langman

  • Birmingham Heartlands Hospital

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Keir Lewis

  • Swansea University

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Tamas Kovacs

  • University of Pécs

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Olivia C. Leavy

  • University of Leicester

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Terezia Laszlo

  • University of Pécs

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Olga Perski

  • University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Susan Stirling

  • University of East Anglia

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Hui Li

  • Fudan University
  • Beijing Institute of Technology

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Terry Hughes

  • University of Liverpool

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Edwin R Chilvers

  • Department of Medicine
  • Imperial College London

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Bingqi Du

  • Xidian University

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Veronika Csongei

  • University of Pécs

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Robert Foronjy

  • SUNY Downstate Medical Center

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Hilary Pinnock

  • Allergy and Respiratory Research Group

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Jim M. Wild

  • University of Sheffield

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Raminder Aul

  • St George's Healthcare NHS Trust

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Lucy Pigram

  • Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust

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Charlotte Jeff

  • Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham

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Michael Kreuter

  • Heidelberg University Hospital
  • Thoraxklinik am Universitatsklinikum Heidelberg

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D. J.F. Smith

  • Imperial College London
  • Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust

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Elisabeth Bendstrup

  • Aarhus University Hospital

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Neil J. Greening

  • Leicester NIHR Biomedical Research Centre

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Maria Kokosi

  • Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust

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Tony Cahn

  • Department of Respiratory Medicine, Bedford Hospitals NHS Trust, South Wing, Kempston Road, Bedford, MK42 9DJ

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Ian Jarrold

  • Asthma + Lung UK

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Malcolm Brodlie

  • Newcastle University

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Felix Chua

  • Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust

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Dipesh Mistry

  • University of Warwick

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Venerino Poletti

  • G.B. Morgagni Hospital
  • Aarhus University Hospital

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Edit Kiss

  • University of Pécs

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Jamie Brown

  • University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Szilvia Barko

  • University of Pécs

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Qian Wang

  • Shanghai Environmental Monitoring Centre
  • University of Portsmouth

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Mark Spears

  • Perth Royal Infirmary
  • University of Dundee

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Nazia Chadhuri

  • University of Manchester

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Monika Avdicevic

  • University of Pécs

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Matthew W Cooke

  • University of Warwick
  • Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust

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Omer Elneima

  • University of Leicester
  • Leicester NIHR Biomedical Research Centre

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Huzaifa Adamali

  • North Bristol NHS Trust
  • Southmead Hospital
  • Imperial College London

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Michael Marks

  • London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
  • University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • University College London

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LamChin Tan

  • University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust

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Toby M. Maher

  • University of Southern California
  • Imperial College London
  • Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust
  • University of California

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Hui Li

  • The Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University

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Matthew Hammond

  • University of East Anglia

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Tamas F. Molnar

  • University of Pécs

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Steve E Jones

  • European Pulmonary Fibrosis Federation
  • Action for Pulmonary Fibrosis

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James Hodson

  • Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham
  • University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

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