Division of Immunology, Immunity to Infection and Respiratory Medicine

Waqar Ahmed
- Division of Immunology, Immunity to Infection and Respiratory Medicine - Research Fellow
Person: Academic
Peter Alexander
- Division of Immunology, Immunity to Infection and Respiratory Medicine - Honorary Senior Lecturer (Teach and Res)
Person: Academic
Judi Allen
- judi.allenmanchester.acuk
- Division of Immunology, Immunity to Infection and Respiratory Medicine - Professor of Immunology
Person: Academic
Peter Arkwright, FRCPCH, D Phil (Oxon)
- peter.arkwrightmanchester.acuk
- Division of Immunology, Immunity to Infection and Respiratory Medicine - Clinical Senior Lecturer
Person: Academic
Graham Atherton, Msc PhD
- Division of Immunology, Immunity to Infection and Respiratory Medicine - Honorary Lecturer (Teaching & Research)
Person: Academic

Anaphylaxis versus inducible laryngeal obstruction: a diagnostic dilemma
Tidmarsh, B., Ludlow, S. & Fowler, S., 7 Mar 2025, In: BMJ Case Reports. 18, 3
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
An optimised faecal microRNA sequencing pipeline reveals fibrosis in Trichuris muris infection
Layton, E., Goldsworthy, S., Sutherland, T. E., Bancroft, A. J., Thompson, S., Griffiths-Jones, S., Grencis, R. K., Fairhurst, A.-M. & Roberts, I. S., 12 Feb 2025, In: Nature Communications. 16, 1, 1589.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access
Antibiotics for common infections in primary care before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic: cohort study of extent of prescribing based on risks of infection-related hospital admissions
Fahmi, A., Yang, Y.-T., Zhong, X., Pate, A., Sharma, A., Watts, S., Ashcroft, D., Goldacre, B., Mackenna, B., Massey, J., Mehrkar, A., Bacon, S., McMillan, B., Dark, P., Hand, K., Palin, V. & Van Staa, T., 3 Apr 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access
Antifungal stewardship in the UK: where are we now?
Schelenz, S., Agrawal, S., Brady, A., Kiely, G., Riaz, Z., Howes, E., Felton, T., Micallef, C., Tyler, N., Bicanic, T. & White, P. L., 1 Feb 2025, In: JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance. 7, 1, dlae209.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access
Are Procalcitonin Measures a Reliable Predictor of Stopping Antibiotics Among Patients With Sepsis?-Reply
Dark, P., Hossain, A. & Lall, R., 14 Apr 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: JAMA.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Commentary/debate › peer-review

2 Not started
8 Active
14 Finished

The nanoscale governance of immune checkpoint receptors
Worboys, J. (PI)
1/10/24 → 30/09/32
Project: Research
Hub for long-acting technologies
McDonald, T. (PI), Bussy, C. (CoI), Gallego Schmid, A. (CoI), Hadjidemetriou, M. (CoI) & Tapeinos, C. (CoI)
1/10/24 → 30/09/30
Project: Research
Characterising the immune microenvironment of meninges in patients with a vestibular schwannoma
Islim, A. (PI)
1/08/24 → 31/07/27
Project: Research
Fat on the frontline: Immune control of energy reserves during infection
Sinton, M. (PI)
1/06/24 → 31/05/29
Project: Research
NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre
Bruce, I. (PI), Lord, G. (CoI), Lennon, R. (CoI), Black, G. (CoI), Wedge, D. (CoI), Morris, A. (CoI), Hussell, T. (CoI), Sharrocks, A. (CoI), Stivaros, S. (CoI), Buch, M. (CoI), Gough, J. (CoI), Kostarelos, K. (CoI), Thistlethwaite, F. (CoI), Kadler, K. (CoI), Barton, A. (CoI), Hyrich, K. (CoI), Mcbeth, J. (CoI), O'Neill, T. (CoI), Vestbo, J. (CoI), Simpson, A. (CoI), Singh, S. (CoI), Smith, J. (CoI), Felton, T. (CoI), Murray, C. (CoI), Griffiths, C. (CoI), Cullum, N. (CoI), Rhodes, L. (CoI), Warren, R. (CoI), Paus, R. (CoI), Dumville, J. (CoI), Viros Usandizaga, A. (CoI), Keavney, B. (CoI), Tomaszewski, M. (CoI), Allan, S. (CoI), Body, R. (CoI), Cartwright, E. (CoI), Heagerty, A. (CoI), Kalra, P. (CoI), Miller, C. (CoI), Rutter, M. (CoI), Smith, C. (CoI), Trafford, A. (CoI), Evans, D. (CoI), Crosbie, E. (CoI), Crosbie, P. (CoI), Harvie, M. (CoI), Howell, S. (CoI), Renehan, A. (CoI), Dive, C. (CoI), Blackhall, F. (CoI), Landers, D. (CoI), Krebs, M. (CoI), Cook, N. (CoI), Clarke, R. (CoI), Taylor, S. (CoI), Jorgensen, C. (CoI), Lorigan, P. (CoI), Jayson, G. (CoI), Valle, J. (CoI), Mccabe, M. (CoI), Armstrong, A. (CoI), Freitas, A. (CoI), Illidge, T. (CoI), Choudhury, A. (CoI), Hoskin, P. (CoI), West, C. (CoI), Van Herk, M. (CoI), Faivre-Finn, C. (CoI), Bristow, R. (CoI), Kirkby, K. (CoI), Birtle, A. (CoI), Mackay, R. (CoI), Radford, J. (CoI), Linton, K. (CoI), Higham, C. (CoI), Munro, K. (CoI), Plack, C. (CoI), Arden Armitage, C. (CoI), Bruce, I. (CoI), Moore, D. (CoI), Saunders, G. (CoI), Stone, M. (CoI), Haddock, G. (CoI), Lewis, S. (CoI), Elliott, R. (CoI), Green, J. (CoI), Lovell, K. (CoI), Morrison, A. (CoI), Shaw, J. (CoI), Bucci, S. (CoI), Ainsworth, J. (CoI), Webb, R. (CoI), Newman, W. (CoI), Banka, S. (CoI), Clayton-Smith, J. (CoI), Payne, K. (CoI), Moldovan, R. (CoI), Wynn, R. (CoI) & Jones, S. (CoI)
1/12/22 → 30/11/27
Project: Research

Clinical trials in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) advancing effective combination treatments
Singh, S. (Participant) & Vestbo, J. (Participant)
Impact: Health and wellbeing, Economic
Cough monitoring system facilitates clinical trials and enables development of treatments for patients with refractory chronic cough
Smith, J. (Participant), Mcguinness, K. (Participant) & Woodcock, A. (Participant)
Impact: Health and wellbeing, Economic
Defining global antifungal azole resistance in Aspergillus – enhancing diagnostics and driving drug discovery
Denning, D. (Participant), Warn, P. (Participant), Bromley, M. (Participant), Bowyer, P. (Participant) & Moore, C. (Participant)
Impact: Health and wellbeing, Policy, Economic
Definitive multinational efficacy trials and pioneering ‘real-world’ evidence informing treatments and international strategy for managing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
Vestbo, J. (Participant), Singh, S. (Participant) & Woodcock, A. (Participant)
Impact: Health and wellbeing
Development and application of inhaled therapies in airway diseases
Woodcock, A. (Participant), Vestbo, J. (Participant), Singh, S. (Participant) & Custovic, A. (Participant)
Impact: Health impacts

Integrating single cell and spatial transcriptomic data to understand the response of adipose tissue to parasitic infection
Sinton, M. (Speaker)
29 Jan 2025 → 30 Jan 2025
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk › Research
Characterising Meningeal Immune Aggregates in Neurodegenerative Disease
Quintana, J. (Examiner)
2025 → …
Activity: Examination › Research
Immune Boosting- fact or fiction
Cruickshank, S. (Speaker)
6 Aug 2024 → …
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk › Research
EORTC (European Organisation for Research & Treatment of Cancer) (External organisation)
Islim, A. (Academic expert member)
1 Aug 2024 → 1 Aug 2027
Activity: Membership › Membership of committee › Research
Launch of the Ardwick Climate Action Green Route
Cruickshank, S. (Member of programme committee)
12 Mar 2024
Activity: Participating in or organising event(s) › Participating in a conference, workshop, exhibition, performance, inquiry, course etc › Research

The IPF fibroblastic focus is an active collagen biosynthesis factory embedded in a distinct extracellular matrix
Herrera, J. (Creator), Dingle, L. (Creator), Montero, M. (Creator), Venkateswaran, R. (Creator), Blaikley, J. (Creator), Lawless, C. (Creator) & Schwartz, M. (Creator), PRoteomics IDEntifications Database, 31 Aug 2022
https://proteomecentral.proteomexchange.org/cgi/GetDataset?ID=PXD029341
Dataset
A quantitative model for macrophage activation predicts tunable distance thresholds for propagation of inflammationes in response LPS stimulation
Paszek, P. (Creator), PRoteomics IDEntifications Database, 2018
DOI: 10.6019/PXD001905, https://proteomecentral.proteomexchange.org/cgi/GetDataset?ID=PXD001905
Dataset
Amino acid availability acts as a metabolic rheostat to determine the magnitude of ILC2 responses - WT ILC2
Hepworth, M. (Creator), PRoteomics IDEntifications Database, 2022
https://proteomecentral.proteomexchange.org/cgi/GetDataset?ID=PXD038792
Dataset
Amino acid availability acts as a metabolic rheostat to determine the magnitude of ILC2 responses - SLC7A5 and SLC7A8 KO
Hepworth, M. (Creator), PRoteomics IDEntifications Database, 2022
https://proteomecentral.proteomexchange.org/cgi/GetDataset?ID=PXD038786
Dataset
Whole Lung Proteome in N. brasiliensis Infection in IL-13 deficient mice.
Allen, J. (Creator), PRoteomics IDEntifications Database, 2021
https://proteomecentral.proteomexchange.org/cgi/GetDataset?ID=PXD021853
Dataset

2012 Charles W. Serby COPD Research Fellowship
Mathioudakis, A. (Recipient), Nov 2012
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
Acute or Specialist Service Redesign Award, North/Midlands/East
Crosbie, P. (Recipient), 2018
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
American Thoracic Society travel award
Blaikley, J. (Recipient), 2011
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Anticoagulation Acheivement Award
Horner, D. (Recipient), 1 Nov 2018
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Anton Amann Award Medal
Ahmed, W. (Recipient), 2024
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)

New Co-Lead and Deputy Lead appointed for Industry and Commercialisation
Kitchen, G.
13/04/25
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
Pioneering research with sepsis patients helps fight superbugs
Dark, P.
11/02/25
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
Sliced bread
Cruickshank, S.
20/01/25
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert comment
Biomarker test could significantly reduce antibiotic use in sepsis, finds trial
Dark, P.
10/12/24
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
Professor of Critical Care Medicine becomes Vice Dean for Health and Care Partnerships
Dark, P.
19/09/24
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Other

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