Asthma and Lung UK — grant history
Latest income
£16.1m
Grants listed (FY2025)
15
Listed grants total
£1.4m
Accounts grants total
£1.4m
listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 accounts
Application guidance — from the funder’s own website
- How to apply: Asthma + Lung UK does not accept unsolicited applications for grants. The pages state: 'Asthma and Lung UK relies entirely on donations from individuals and grants from organisations to fund our work'.
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What this funder supports
Causes funded
Where grantees operate
- Northern Ireland
- Scotland
- Throughout England And Wales
What changed: FY2024 → FY2025
| Change | Grantee | FY2024 | FY2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| new | Mayur Murali | — | £180k |
| new | Dr Kamini Rakkar | — | £100k |
| new | Dr Nikolaos Kanellakis | — | £100k |
| new | Hannah Whittaker | — | £100k |
| new | Dr Robert Hall | — | £100k |
| new | Dr Khine Myint | — | £98k |
| new | Dr Rory Chan | — | £98k |
| new | Ireti Adejumo | — | £98k |
| not listed | Prof Dean Fennell | £676k | — |
| not listed | Humanly | £431k | — |
| not listed | Prof Stefan Marciniak | £335k | — |
| not listed | Dr Antonia Pritchard | £156k | — |
| not listed | Dr Laurence Pearmain | £100k | — |
| not listed | Bohee Lee | £100k | — |
| not listed | Dr Justine Devulder | £100k | — |
| not listed | Dr Richard Hewitt | £100k | — |
Grants made, per its accounts filings
| Recipient | Year | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mayur Murali | FY2025 | £180k | Research Grant |
| Dr Kamini Rakkar | FY2025 | £100k | Research Grant |
| Dr Nikolaos Kanellakis | FY2025 | £100k | Research Grant |
| Hannah Whittaker | FY2025 | £100k | Research Grant |
| Dr Robert Hall | FY2025 | £100k | Research Grant |
| Dr Khine Myint | FY2025 | £98k | Research Grant |
| Dr Rory Chan | FY2025 | £98k | Research Grant |
| Ireti Adejumo | FY2025 | £98k | Research Grant |
| Dr Naijie Guan | FY2025 | £98k | Research Grant |
| Dr Juma El-Awaisi | FY2025 | £96k | Research Grant |
| Anna Rattu | FY2025 | £93k | Research Grant |
| Dr Ben Knox-Brown | FY2025 | £77k | Research Grant |
| Dr Enya Daynes | FY2025 | £71k | Research Grant |
| Dr Jane McDowell | FY2025 | £52k | Research Grant |
| Ben Bowhay | FY2025 | £23k | Research Grant |
| Prof Dean Fennell | FY2024 | £676k | Research grant |
| Humanly | FY2024 | £431k | Non-Research grant |
| Prof Stefan Marciniak | FY2024 | £335k | Research grant |
| Dr Antonia Pritchard | FY2024 | £156k | Research grant |
| Dr Laurence Pearmain | FY2024 | £100k | Research grant |
| Bohee Lee | FY2024 | £100k | Research grant |
| Dr Justine Devulder | FY2024 | £100k | Research grant |
| Dr Richard Hewitt | FY2024 | £100k | Research grant |
| Dr Franz Puttur | FY2024 | £100k | Research grant |
| Jodie Ackland | FY2024 | £99k | Research grant |
| Dr Arietta Spinou | FY2024 | £99k | Research grant |
| Dr Steven Cass | FY2024 | £99k | Research grant |
| Dr Amlan Chakraborty | FY2024 | £99k | Research grant |
| Rachel Walters | FY2024 | £99k | Research grant |
| Dr Rebecca Nightingale | FY2024 | £98k | Research grant |
| Dr Aref Kyyaly | FY2024 | £97k | Research grant |
| Dr Michael Bennett | FY2024 | £96k | Research grant |
| Dr Deborah Morris-Rosendahl | FY2024 | £90k | Research grant |
| Our Future Health | FY2024 | £90k | Non-Research grant |
| Ms Gillian Doe | FY2024 | £86k | Research grant |
| Ahmed Edris | FY2024 | £86k | Research grant |
| Dr Ran Wang | FY2024 | £64k | Research grant |
| Glenn Mason | FY2024 | £40k | Research grant |
| Nour Odeh | FY2024 | £30k | Research grant |
| Alex Chan | FY2024 | £30k | Research grant |
| Aleksandra Gawlik-Lipinski | FY2024 | £30k | Research grant |
| Christine Mwasuku | FY2024 | £30k | Research grant |
| Professor Adrian Martineau | FY2023 | £300k | Research Grant |
| Professor Nayia Petousi | FY2023 | £300k | Research Grant |
| Professor Salman Siddiqui | FY2023 | £295k | Research Grant |
| Professor Gabriel Lambert | FY2023 | £288k | Research Grant |
| Mr Nick Grompertz | FY2023 | £239k | Research Grant |
| Professor Freddy Frost | FY2023 | £96k | Research Grant |
| Dr James Brown | FY2023 | £96k | Research Grant |
| Dr James Pease | FY2023 | £92k | Research Grant |
| Professor Caroline Jolley | FY2023 | £91k | Research Grant |
| Dr Helen Ashdown | FY2023 | £78k | Research Grant |
| Professor Helen Groves | FY2023 | £49k | Research Grant |
| Dr Crispin Hiley | FY2022 | £496k | Hemithoracic Irradiation with Proton Therapy in Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma (HIT–Meso) |
| Professor Anne Thomas | FY2022 | £386k | Mesothelioma stratified therapy clinical trial (MiST) |
| Professor Robert Rintoul | FY2022 | £386k | MesobanK and fellowship awards |
| Dr Jan Lukas Robertus | FY2022 | £377k | Machine Learning approaches to detect preneoplastic changes in mesothelial cells for early detection of mesothelioma using pleural fluid and liquid biopsies |
| Dr James Allinson | FY2022 | £300k | Characterising the pathophysiology of early COPD |
| Professor Tracy Hussell | FY2022 | £290k | Aberrant B cell responses in the COPD lung: a new avenue for therapeutic treatment |
| Dr Hannah Durrington | FY2022 | £276k | Women and Asthma…. It’s about time! The impact of biological sex on the body clock in asthma. |
| Dr Ahmar Shah | FY2022 | £228k | Exogenous sex steroid hormones and asthma phenotypes: a population-based prospective cohort study using UK-wide primary care databases |
| Professor Phil Molyneaux | FY2022 | £212k | Deciphering and targeting the microbiome-host interaction in Pulmonary Fibrosis |
| Professor Amelia Shoemark | FY2022 | £211k | Targeting cilia dysfunction as a therapeutic strategy for bronchiectasis |
| Professor Mona Bafadhel | FY2022 | £200k | Investigating oestrogen signalling and the effect upon the extracellular matrix in patients with obstructive lung disease |
| Dr Chloe Bloom | FY2022 | £100k | Repurposing therapeutics to reduce asthma exacerbations in women with obesity-linked asthma |
| Dr Timothy Hinks | FY2022 | £98k | Discovering the mechanisms of sex-specific airways inflammation and remodelling through transcriptomic, genetic, and immunopathological analyses: the SEx Specific Asthma MEchanisms (SESAME) datasets. |
| Dr Simon Hart | FY2022 | £81k | A cell model for discovering biomarkers and druggable targets for pulmonary fibrosis |
| Dr Cornelia Blume | FY2022 | £80k | Modulation of the transcriptome, lipidome and metabolome in respiratory epithelial cells by female sex hormones during viral infections in women with severe asthma |
| Dr Adam Byrne | FY2022 | £79k | Elucidating the immunological mechanisms underlying interstitial lung disease in children |
| Professor Rachel Chambers | FY2022 | £45k | Investigating the role of metabolic reprogramming in post-COVID-19 related interstitial lung disease (PC–ILD) |
| Prof Anne Thomas | FY2021 | £900k | Core Funding Support for: Mesothelioma Stratified Therapy (MIST): A stratified multi-arm phase lla clinical trial to enable accelerated evaluation of targeted therapies for relapsed malignant mesothelioma. |
| Dr Gerrard Raferty | FY2021 | £578k | The use of Symmetric Projection Attractor Reconstruction (SPAR) as a novel assessment tool in asthma |
| Dr Robert Rintoul, Papworth Hospital | FY2021 | £532k | MesoBank and Research Fellows/post docs |
| Dr Elizabeth Crawford | FY2021 | £500k | Investigation of a digital health solution providing real-time inhaler technique guidance. |
| D Murphy, University of Glasgow | FY2021 | £305k | Differential Expression of Bystander Transcriptomes for Mesothelioma Diagnosis: DEBIT-Meso |
| Prof Richard Body | FY2021 | £250k | COVID-19 National Diagnostic Research and Evaluation Platform (CONDOR) |
| Dr Ben Goldacre | FY2021 | £250k | Urgent research and surveillance on COVID-19 using the new OpenSAFELY secure platform across 55 million patients’ full linked primary care records. |
| Innovate UK | FY2021 | Unverified read£141k | Dr Thomas Brown - Diagnosing and phEnotyping asThma using thE InflammacheCk™ Breath- PrinT — The DETECT Study. |
| Innovate UK | FY2021 | £140k | Dr Clare Murray - Novel diagnostic approaches to asthma in children — a feasibility study |
| A Byrne, Imperial College London | FY2021 | £135k | Itaconate as a novel therapeutic strategy for IPF |
| Dr R Kurukulaaratchy, University of Southampton | FY2021 | £125k | Circulating miRNAs as a diagnostic test for asthma and to identify asthma severity risk |
| orn Ho, University of | FY2021 | £120k | Defining the immune drivers of fibrotic pulmonary sarcoidosis |
| S Marciniak, University Cambridge | FY2021 | £108k | Harnessing single cell RNA sequencing technology to improve early diagnosis and prognostication |
| A Scott, University of Birmingham | FY2021 | £98k | Masonic PhD Student - Evaluating the impact of e-cigarettes on the innate immune response in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease |
| A Goodwin, University of Nottingham | FY2021 | £40k | Role of Gatq/II in Controlling the Extracellular Matrix and Cellular Crosstalk in Pulmonary Fibrosis |
| D Fennell, University of Leicester | FY2021 | £40k | Engaging Clonal Neoantigen-Specific T-Cell reactivity in Mesothelioma for Personalized Immunotherapy |
| John Blaikley, Uni of Manchester | FY2021 | £40k | 2020 Full Pulmo - The effect of circadian disruption/sleep on IPF incidence and prognosis |
| Prof Dean Fennell | FY2021 | amount not stated | A Randomised Phase II/III trial of maintenance Niraparib versus active symptom control in patients with chemosensitive Malignant Mesothelioma Study acronym: NERO (Nirapirib Efficacy in unResectable MesOthelioma) |
| Prof Rafael Calvo | FY2021 | amount not stated | Improving asthma care through personalised risk assessment and support from a conversational agent |
| Dr Luke Wylie | FY2021 | amount not stated | The mutational landscape of non-malignant pleura following asbestos exposure |
| Dr Lucy Jackson-Jones | FY2021 | amount not stated | Understanding the local immune response in malignant pleural mesothelioma |
| Dr Ingrid Wolfe | FY2021 | amount not stated | Technology Enhanced integrAted asthMa care. TEAM-care |
| Prof Sejal Saglani | FY2021 | amount not stated | Remote monitoring to predict and prevent asthma attacks in preschool children |