Division of Respiratory Medicine
Respiratory research is a major area of strength within Nottingham. At the 2001 University Research Assessment Exercise Respiratory Medicine was flagged as 5* and there has been further development and expansion since. The Division has 9 full time academic staff, Prof Alan Knox (Professor), Dr Linhua Pang (Non-Clinical Reader), Drs Tim Harrison, Charlotte Bolton and Dominic Shaw and Gisli Jenkins (Clinical Senior Lecturers) and Amy Sutcliffe, Kevin Mortimer and Doug Forrester (Clinical Lecturers). Members of the Division are all part of the new £6M NIHR funded Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit (Professor Knox is Director). Current funding within the Division includes a Wellcome programme grant and several Wellcome, MRC, NIHR and EU project grants in addition to grants from charities (BLF, Asthma UK, US CF Foundation) and industry of approximately £29M in total. There are two main research areas within the Divison which are discovery science and translation. The main lung diseases of interest are Asthma/COPD, Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and Cystic fibrosis. The Division is based in the Clinical Sciences Building on the City Campus with the Respiratory BRU, Respiratory Epidemiology group and Tobacco Control Centre. We have strong links with Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, Child Health, Molecular Bacteriology and Pharmacy on the QMC campus.
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- Scientists at The University of Nottingham have been involved in the discovery of sixteen new sections of the genetic code that relate to lung health — opening up the possibility for better prevention as well as treatment for lung diseases.
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- 26/09/2011
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- The link between poor socioeconomic status and premature mortality in people with cystic fibrosis has persisted over the past 50 years, according to a study led by Dr Helen Barr published in the British Medical Journal.
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- 08/09/2011
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- A study looking into the role of certain genes in the development of airways disease at the University of Nottingham has won a grant of £1.326 million from the Medical Research Council for the next five years.
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- 13/04/2011
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