Professor Allan Lawrie
BSc, PhD
Clinical Medicine, School of Medicine and Population Health
Honorary Professor of Translational Cardiopulmonary Science
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Clinical Medicine, School of Medicine and Population Health
The Medical School
Beech Hill Road
Sheffield
S10 2RX
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For enquiries, please contact – iicd-om-operational@sheffield.ac.uk
I completed my PhD “The effects of ultrasound on vascular gene delivery” (Supervisor”: Prof Chris Newman) in the Department of Cardiovascular Science at the University of Sheffield at the end of 2001. I followed this with a post-doctoral position with Prof Marlene Rabinovitch at Stanford University, California where I developed my interested in Pulmonary Hypertension.
I gained my first independent Fellowship to return to Sheffield at the end of 2004 (Russell Fellowship) and started to build a basic science research group focused understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying pulmonary hypertension.
I obtained a Medical Research Council Career Development Award in 2008 and now hold a British Heart Foundation Senior Basic Science Research Fellowship (since 2012).
Within the Donald Heath programme I lead a talented group of scientists and maintain strong translational links through the Sheffield Pulmonary Vascular Disease Unit at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital working towards my core research interests of drug target identification, biomarkers, novel therapies, and the use of ‘Real-World’ data including NHS HES and personal activity data to improve early disease diagnosis and monitoring of treatment response.
- Research interests
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My group has a strong interest in understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying pulmonary arterial hypertension (or PAH). We have a strong translational and collaborative focus working with the Sheffield Pulmonary Vascular Disease Unit, nationally with all UK PH Centres through the UK Idiopathic and Heritable Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Cohort, and multiple international collaborations.
Drug target identification / development
Work in my lab identified the Osteoprotegerin (OPG) / Tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-Related Apoptosis-Inducing Ligand (TRAIL) axis as both key regulators of disease pathogenesis and therapeutic targets (Lawrie et al Am J Pathol 2008, Hameed et al JEM 2012).
Working though MRC:MICA Developmental Pathway Funding Scheme, in partnership with Kymab Ltd we have identified and patented a human therapeutic antibody targeting OPG (Arnold et al Nat Comms 2019).
I also have a strong interest in the role of inflammation, specifically IL-1 (Lawrie et al Am J Path 2011) in PAH, and on the regulation of BMPR2 signalling (Pickworth et al Pulm Circ 2017) in the lung and in miRNA and non-coding RNA biology.
We have identified a number of key miRNA that offer diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic potential. Once such example under further study is miR-140-5p which we have recently shown to be a regulator of BMP signalling, a potential explanation for reduced BMPR2 expression independent of mutation, and identified SMURF1 as a potential drug target (Rothman et al JCI 2016).
Several other individual miRNA are currently under investigation including miR-34a (Chen et al Circ 2018).
Biomarkers and Precision Medicine for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
I am Chief Investigator for The Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Observational Study of Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension, Cardiovascular and other Respiratory Diseases (STH-ObS). Through STH-Obs we have developed a biobank of samples from patients with Pulmonary Hypertension and other cardiovascular and respiratory disease (DNA/RNA/Plasma/Serum/Urine). I have a strong interest in the development of multi-omic signatures of disease as biomarkers (proteomic, miRNA and epigenetic), an integrating these biological signals with clinical phenotype to discover novel disease mechanisms.
To this end I have established national and international collaborations resulting in a number of high profile studies including whole genome sequencing (Gräf et al Nat. Comms 2018), RNA expression (Rhodes et al AJRCCM 2020), miRNA (Rhodes et al AJRCCM 2013, Rothman et al JCI 2016), proteomics (Rhodes et al Lancet Resp Med 2017) and metabolomics (Rhodes et al Circulation 2017) offers great potential to identify novel drug targets, and develop tools for Precision Medicine.
Early detection and treatment response
Working with our partner IQVIA Ltd we are exploring the potential to harnessing real-world healthcare resource utilisation data in the form of NHS Hospital Episode Statistics to develop an algorithm to aid early detection of PAH (Bergemann et al Pulm Circ 2018 & 2019).
Most recently working with Euan Ashley (Stanford) I am exploring the use of personal activity data and the use of the MyHeart Counts App in STH-Obs to assess treatment response in PAH, and monitor signs of early cardio/respiratory disease.
Current projects
- British Heart Foundation Senior Basic Science Research Fellow (renewal) – Dec 2018 to Nov 2023. Defining the molecular mechanisms of the OPG-FAS-TRAIL axis in pulmonary arterial hypertension - £842,732. Allan Lawrie (PI).
- British Heart Foundation Special Project Grant (renewal) – Jan 2019 to Dec 2023. National cohort study of idiopathic and heritable pulmonary arterial hypertension £1,502,821. Co-I, PI – Nick Morrell, Cambridge.
- British Heart Foundation Project Grant - Jul 2018 to Dec 2020. Investigating the sex-dependent role of macrophage subtypes in the pathogenesis of pulmonary arterial hypertension - £158,377. Allan Lawrie (PI), G. Millar, A.A.R. Thompson.
- Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Career Development Fellowship to Dr Alexander Rothman - Nov 2017 to Feb 2020. Determining Novel SMURF1 Signalling Pathways and Precision Medicine Strategies in Patients with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension - £460,409. (Research Supervisors: Sheila Francis, Allan Lawrie).
- British Heart Foundation Intermediate Clinical Research Fellowship to Dr A. A. Roger Thompson – Sep 2018 to Aug 2022. The role of double-stranded RNA in pulmonary vascular remodelling - £722,505. (Research Supervisors: Ian Sabroe, Allan Lawrie).
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Featured publications
Journal articles
- Biological heterogeneity in idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension identified through unsupervised transcriptomic profiling of whole blood. Nature Communications, 12.
- Whole blood RNA profiles associated with pulmonary arterial hypertension and clinical outcome. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. View this article in WRRO
- Loss of endothelial endoglin promotes high-output heart failure through peripheral arteriovenous shunting driven by VEGF signaling. Circulation Research, 126(2), 243-257. View this article in WRRO
- A toolbox for the longitudinal assessment of healthspan in aging mice. Nature Protocols, 15(2), 540-574.
- A therapeutic antibody targeting osteoprotegerin attenuates severe experimental pulmonary arterial hypertension. Nature Communications, 10(1). View this article in WRRO
- Utilising artificial intelligence to determine patients at risk of a rare disease : idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension. Pulmonary Circulation, 9(4). View this article in WRRO
- Genetic determinants of risk in pulmonary arterial hypertension: international genome-wide association studies and meta-analysis. The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, 7(3), 227-238. View this article in WRRO
- Toll-like receptor 3 is a therapeutic target for pulmonary hypertension. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 199(2). View this article in WRRO
- High levels of healthcare utilization prior to diagnosis in idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension support the feasibility of an early diagnosis algorithm: the SPHInX project.. Pulmonary Circulation, 8(4), 1-9. View this article in WRRO
- Epigenetic Dysregulation of the Drp1 Binding Partners MiD49 and MiD51 Increases Mitotic Mitochondrial Fission and Promotes Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Mechanistic and Therapeutic Implications.. Circulation, 138(3), 287-304. View this article in WRRO
- Identification of rare sequence variation underlying heritable pulmonary arterial hypertension. Nature Communications, 9(1). View this article in WRRO
- Selective improvement of pulmonary arterial hypertension with a dual ET A /ET B receptors antagonist in the apolipoprotein E −/− model of PAH and atherosclerosis. Pulmonary Circulation, 8(1), 1-11. View this article in WRRO
- Differential IL-1 signaling induced by BMPR2 deficiency drives pulmonary vascular remodeling. Pulmonary Circulation. View this article in WRRO
- Plasma proteome analysis in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension: an observational cohort study. The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, 5(9), 717-726. View this article in WRRO
- Targeting Vascular Remodeling to Treat Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. Trends in Molecular Medicine, 23(1), 31-45. View this article in WRRO
- miRNA-140-5p: new avenue for pulmonary arterial hypertension drug development?. Epigenomics. View this article in WRRO
- MicroRNA-140-5p and SMURF1 regulate pulmonary arterial hypertension. Journal of Clinical Investigation, 126(7), 2495-2508. View this article in WRRO
- The role of the osteoprotegerin/tumor necrosis factor related apoptosis-inducing ligand axis in the pathogenesis of pulmonary arterial hypertension. Vascular Pharmacology, 63(3), 114-117.
- MicroRNA in pulmonary vascular disease.. Prog Mol Biol Transl Sci, 124, 43-63.
- Inhibition of tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) reverses experimental pulmonary hypertension.. J Exp Med, 209(11), 1919-1935. View this article in WRRO
- Serum osteoprotegerin is increased and predicts survival in idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension.. Pulm Circ, 2(1), 21-27. View this article in WRRO
- Paigen diet-fed apolipoprotein e knockout mice develop severe pulmonary hypertension in an interleukin-1-Dependent Manner. American Journal of Pathology, 179(4), 1693-1705. View this article in WRRO
- Evidence of a role for osteoprotegerin in the pathogenesis of pulmonary arterial hypertension.. Am J Pathol, 172(1), 256-264.
- Interdependent serotonin transporter and receptor pathways regulate S100A4/Mts1, a gene associated with pulmonary vascular disease. Circulation Research, 97(3), 227-235.
- Ultrasound gene therapy: on the road from concept to reality.. Echocardiography, 18(4), 339-347.
- Microbubble-enhanced ultrasound for vascular gene delivery.. Gene Ther, 7(23), 2023-2027.
- Ultrasound enhances reporter gene expression after transfection of vascular cells in vitro.. Circulation, 99(20), 2617-2620.
All publications
Journal articles
- Mining the Plasma Proteome for Insights into the Molecular Pathology of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 205(12), 1449-1460.
- Training and clinical testing of artificial intelligence derived right atrial cardiovascular magnetic resonance measurements. Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, 24(1).
- Imaging and risk stratification in pulmonary arterial hypertension : time to include right ventricular assessment. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 9. View this article in WRRO
- Autoimmunity is a significant feature of idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 206(1), 81-93.
- T-cell and antibody responses to first BNT162b2 vaccine dose in previously infected and SARS-CoV-2-naive UK health-care workers: a multicentre prospective cohort study. The Lancet Microbe, 3(1), e21-e31. View this article in WRRO
- Correction to: Rare variant analysis of 4241 pulmonary arterial hypertension cases from an international consortium implicates FBLN2, PDGFD, and rare de novo variants in PAH. Genome Medicine, 13(1).
- Biological heterogeneity in idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension identified through unsupervised transcriptomic profiling of whole blood. Nature Communications, 12.
- Physical, cognitive, and mental health impacts of COVID-19 after hospitalisation (PHOSP-COVID): a UK multicentre, prospective cohort study.. The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. View this article in WRRO
- A diagnostic miRNA signature for pulmonary arterial hypertension using a consensus machine learning approach. EBioMedicine, 69. View this article in WRRO
- Frataxin and endothelial cell senescence in pulmonary hypertension. Journal of Clinical Investigation, 131(11).
- Zebrafish as a tractable model of human cardiovascular disease. British Journal of Pharmacology. View this article in WRRO
- Rare variant analysis of 4241 pulmonary arterial hypertension cases from an international consortium implicates FBLN2, PDGFD, and rare de novo variants in PAH. Genome Medicine, 13(1), 80-80.
- Right Ventricular Adaptation Assessed Using Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Predicts Survival in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging.
- Deprivation and prognosis in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension: missing the effect of deprivation on a rare disease?. European Respiratory Journal, 56(2). View this article in WRRO
- Publisher Correction: Whole-genome sequencing of a sporadic primary immunodeficiency cohort. Nature, 584(7819), E2-E2.
- Whole-genome sequencing of a sporadic primary immunodeficiency cohort. Nature. View this article in WRRO
- Whole blood RNA profiles associated with pulmonary arterial hypertension and clinical outcome. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. View this article in WRRO
- Identification of cardiac MRI thresholds for risk stratification in pulmonary arterial hypertension. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 201(4), 458-468. View this article in WRRO
- A machine learning cardiac magnetic resonance approach to extract disease features and automate pulmonary arterial hypertension diagnosis. European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging. View this article in WRRO
- Loss of endothelial endoglin promotes high-output heart failure through peripheral arteriovenous shunting driven by VEGF signaling. Circulation Research, 126(2), 243-257. View this article in WRRO
- A toolbox for the longitudinal assessment of healthspan in aging mice. Nature Protocols, 15(2), 540-574.
- Whole-genome sequencing of patients with rare diseases in a national health system. Nature, 583(7814), 96-102.
- Characterization of GDF2 Mutations and Levels of BMP9 and BMP10 in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 201(5), 575-585.
- Screening strategies for pulmonary arterial hypertension. European Heart Journal Supplements, 21(Supplement_K), K9-K20. View this article in WRRO
- A therapeutic antibody targeting osteoprotegerin attenuates severe experimental pulmonary arterial hypertension. Nature Communications, 10(1). View this article in WRRO
- Utilising artificial intelligence to determine patients at risk of a rare disease : idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension. Pulmonary Circulation, 9(4). View this article in WRRO
- Germline selection shapes human mitochondrial DNA diversity. Science, 364(6442), eaau6520-eaau6520.
- Bi-allelic Loss-of-Function CACNA1B Mutations in Progressive Epilepsy-Dyskinesia. The American Journal of Human Genetics, 104(5), 948-956.
- Express: The incremental shuttle walk test predicts mortality in non-group 1 pulmonary hypertension: results from the ASPIRE Registry.. Pulmonary Circulation. View this article in WRRO
- Traffic exposures, air pollution and outcomes in pulmonary arterial hypertension: A United Kingdom cohort study analysis.. European Respiratory Journal. View this article in WRRO
- Discovery of Distinct Immune Phenotypes Using Machine Learning in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension.. Circulation Research, 124(6), 904-919. View this article in WRRO
- Genetic determinants of risk in pulmonary arterial hypertension: international genome-wide association studies and meta-analysis. The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, 7(3), 227-238. View this article in WRRO
- Toll-like receptor 3 is a therapeutic target for pulmonary hypertension. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 199(2). View this article in WRRO
- Telomerecat: A ploidy-agnostic method for estimating telomere length from whole genome sequencing data. Scientific Reports, 8(1). View this article in WRRO
- Loss-of-Function ABCC8 Mutations in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. Circulation. Genomic and precision medicine, 11(10). View this article in WRRO
- The impact of patient choice on survival in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. European Respiratory Journal, 52(3). View this article in WRRO
- High levels of healthcare utilization prior to diagnosis in idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension support the feasibility of an early diagnosis algorithm: the SPHInX project.. Pulmonary Circulation, 8(4), 1-9. View this article in WRRO
- The Hepcidin/Ferroportin axis modulates proliferation of pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells. Scientific Reports, 8(1). View this article in WRRO
- Divergent Roles for TRAIL in Lung Diseases. Frontiers in Medicine, 5. View this article in WRRO
- Epigenetic Dysregulation of the Drp1 Binding Partners MiD49 and MiD51 Increases Mitotic Mitochondrial Fission and Promotes Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Mechanistic and Therapeutic Implications.. Circulation, 138(3), 287-304. View this article in WRRO
- De Novo Truncating Mutations in WASF1 Cause Intellectual Disability with Seizures. The American Journal of Human Genetics, 103(1), 144-153. View this article in WRRO
- Comprehensive cancer-predisposition gene testing in an adult multiple primary tumor series shows a broad range of deleterious variants and atypical tumor phenotypes. The American Journal of Human Genetics, 103(1), 3-18. View this article in WRRO
- Circulating Protein Biomarkers in Systemic Sclerosis Related Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: A Review of Published Data.. Frontiers in Medicine, 5. View this article in WRRO
- Identification of rare sequence variation underlying heritable pulmonary arterial hypertension. Nature Communications, 9(1). View this article in WRRO
- Eplerenone attenuates pathological pulmonary vascular rather than right ventricular remodeling in pulmonary arterial hypertension. BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 18(1). View this article in WRRO
- Selective improvement of pulmonary arterial hypertension with a dual ET A /ET B receptors antagonist in the apolipoprotein E −/− model of PAH and atherosclerosis. Pulmonary Circulation, 8(1), 1-11. View this article in WRRO
- Prognostic Significance of Reduced Blood Pressure Response to Exercise in Pediatric Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 196(11). View this article in WRRO
- Heart rate reduction with ivabradine promotes shear stress-dependent anti-inflammatory mechanisms in arteries. Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 116(1), 181-190. View this article in WRRO
- Phenotypic Characterisation of EIF2AK4 Mutation Carriers in a Large Cohort of Patients Diagnosed Clinically with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension.. Circulation, 136(21), 2022-2033. View this article in WRRO
- Differential IL-1 signaling induced by BMPR2 deficiency drives pulmonary vascular remodeling. Pulmonary Circulation. View this article in WRRO
- Plasma proteome analysis in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension: an observational cohort study. The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, 5(9), 717-726. View this article in WRRO
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Prognostic Evaluation of Patients with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 196(2). View this article in WRRO
- Specific Alleles of CLN7/MFSD8, a Protein That Localizes to Photoreceptor Synaptic Terminals, Cause a Spectrum of Nonsyndromic Retinal Dystrophy. Investigative Opthalmology & Visual Science, 58(7), 2906-2906.
- Incremental Shuttle Walking Test Distance and Autonomic Dysfunction Predict Survival in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. View this article in WRRO
- Hypoxia determines survival outcomes of bacterial infection through HIF-1α-dependent reprogramming of leukocyte metabolism. Science Immunology, 2(8). View this article in WRRO
- Biallelic Mutation of ARHGEF18 , Involved in the Determination of Epithelial Apicobasal Polarity, Causes Adult-Onset Retinal Degeneration. The American Journal of Human Genetics, 100(2), 334-342.
- Plasma Metabolomics Implicate Modified Transfer RNAs and Altered Bioenergetics in the Outcome of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension.. Circulation, 135, 460-475. View this article in WRRO
- Comprehensive Rare Variant Analysis via Whole-Genome Sequencing to Determine the Molecular Pathology of Inherited Retinal Disease. The American Journal of Human Genetics, 100(1), 75-90.
- Targeting Vascular Remodeling to Treat Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. Trends in Molecular Medicine, 23(1), 31-45. View this article in WRRO
- Maintained right ventricular pressure overload induces ventricular-arterial decoupling in mice.. Experimental Physiology. View this article in WRRO
- Bosutinib therapy resulting in severe deterioration of pre-existing pulmonary arterial hypertension. European Respiratory Journal, 48(5), 1514-1514.
- miRNA-140-5p: new avenue for pulmonary arterial hypertension drug development?. Epigenomics. View this article in WRRO
- MicroRNA-140-5p and SMURF1 regulate pulmonary arterial hypertension. Journal of Clinical Investigation, 126(7), 2495-2508. View this article in WRRO
- Pulmonary Artery Denervation Attenuates Pulmonary Arterial Remodeling in Dogs With Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Induced by Dehydrogenized Monocrotaline. JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions, 8(15), 2013-2023.
- Pulmonary Artery Denervation Reduces Pulmonary Artery Pressure and Induces Histological Changes in an Acute Porcine Model of Pulmonary Hypertension. Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions, 8(11), e002569-e002569. View this article in WRRO
- Low-Dose FK506 (Tacrolimus) in End-Stage Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 192(2), 254-257. View this article in WRRO
- Osteoprotegerin in Cardiometabolic Disorders. International Journal of Endocrinology, 2015, 1-15. View this article in WRRO
- The role of the osteoprotegerin/tumor necrosis factor related apoptosis-inducing ligand axis in the pathogenesis of pulmonary arterial hypertension. Vascular Pharmacology, 63(3), 114-117.
- Influence of pre-analytical and analytical factors on osteoprotegerin measurements.. Clin Biochem, 47(13-14), 1279-1285.
- A report on the use of animal models and phenotyping methods in pulmonary hypertension research.. Pulm Circ, 4(1), 2-9.
- MicroRNA in pulmonary vascular disease.. Prog Mol Biol Transl Sci, 124, 43-63.
- Blood flow suppresses vascular Notch signalling via dll4 and is required for angiogenesis in response to hypoxic signalling.. Cardiovasc Res, 100(2), 252-261. View this article in WRRO
- Pulmonary hypertension in COPD: results from the ASPIRE registry.. Eur Respir J, 41(6), 1292-1301.
- Reduced microRNA-150 is associated with poor survival in pulmonary arterial hypertension.. Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 187(3), 294-302.
- No evidence for cardiac dysfunction in Kif6 mutant mice.. PLoS One, 8(1), e54636. View this article in WRRO
- Inhibition of tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) reverses experimental pulmonary hypertension.. J Exp Med, 209(11), 1919-1935. View this article in WRRO
- ASPIRE registry: assessing the Spectrum of Pulmonary hypertension Identified at a REferral centre.. Eur Respir J, 39(4), 945-955.
- Serum osteoprotegerin is increased and predicts survival in idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension.. Pulm Circ, 2(1), 21-27. View this article in WRRO
- Deficiency of tumour necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand exacerbates lung injury and fibrosis.. Thorax, 67(9), 796-803. View this article in WRRO
- TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) regulates inflammatory neutrophil apoptosis and enhances resolution of inflammation.. J Leukoc Biol, 90(5), 855-865. View this article in WRRO
- Paigen diet-fed apolipoprotein e knockout mice develop severe pulmonary hypertension in an interleukin-1-Dependent Manner. American Journal of Pathology, 179(4), 1693-1705. View this article in WRRO
- S100A4 and Bone Morphogenetic Protein-2 Codependently Induce Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Migration via Phospho-Extracellular Signal-Regulated Kinase and Chloride Intracellular Channel 4. CIRC RES, 105(7), 639-U37.
- Evidence of a role for osteoprotegerin in the pathogenesis of pulmonary arterial hypertension.. Am J Pathol, 172(1), 256-264.
- Abstract 376: A Potential Role for TRAIL in the Pathogenesis of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. Circulation, 116(suppl_16).
- Mts1/S100A4 Stimulates Human Pulmonary Artery Smooth Muscle Cell Migration Through Multiple Signaling Pathways. Chest, 128(6), 577S-577S.
- Ultrasound-mediated delivery of TIMP-3 plasmid DNA into saphenous vein leads to increased lumen size in a porcine interposition graft model.. Gene Ther, 12(14), 1154-1157.
- VP22-mediated intercellular transport correlates with enhanced biological activity of MybEngrailed but not (HSV-I) thymidine kinase fusion proteins in primary vascular cells following non-viral transfection.. J Gene Med, 7(3), 375-385.
- Interdependent serotonin transporter and receptor pathways regulate S100A4/Mts1, a gene associated with pulmonary vascular disease. Circulation Research, 97(3), 227-235.
- Apolipoprotein D and platelet-derived growth factor-BB synergism mediates vascular smooth muscle cell migration. CIRC RES, 95(2), 179-186.
- Apolipoprotein D inhibits platelet-derived growth factor-BB-induced vascular smooth muscle cell proliferated by preventing translocation of phosphorylated extracellular signal regulated kinase 1/2 to the nucleus. ARTERIOSCL THROM VAS, 23(12), 2172-2177.
- Ultrasound-enhanced transgene expression in vascular cells is not dependent upon cavitation-induced free radicals.. Ultrasound Med Biol, 29(10), 1453-1461.
- Ultrasound gene therapy: on the road from concept to reality.. Echocardiography, 18(4), 339-347.
- Microbubble-enhanced ultrasound for vascular gene delivery.. Gene Ther, 7(23), 2023-2027.
- Ultrasound enhances reporter gene expression after transfection of vascular cells in vitro.. Circulation, 99(20), 2617-2620.
- Severe pulmonary hypertension associated with lung disease is characterised by a loss of small pulmonary vessels on quantitative CT. ERJ Open Research, 00503-2021.
- Soluble P-Selectin and von Willebrand Factor Rise in Healthy Volunteers Following Non-exertional Ascent to High Altitude. Frontiers in Physiology, 13.
- Enhanced neutrophil extracellular trap formation in COVID-19 is inhibited by the PKC inhibitor ruboxistaurin. ERJ Open Research, 00596-2021.
- Using the Plasma Proteome for Risk Stratifying Patients with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
- Repeatability and sensitivity to change of non-invasive end points in PAH: the RESPIRE study. Thorax.
- Identifying early pulmonary arterial hypertension biomarkers in systemic sclerosis: Machine learning on proteomics from the DETECT cohort. European Respiratory Journal, 2002591-2002591.
- Bayesian Inference Associates Rare
KDR
Variants with Specific Phenotypes in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine.
- Altered Macrophage Polarization Induces Experimental Pulmonary Hypertension and Is Observed in Patients With Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology.
- Expression Quantitative Trait Locus Mapping in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. Genes, 11(11), 1247-1247.
- Maximal Exercise Testing Using the Incremental Shuttle Walking Test Can Be Used to Risk Stratify Patients with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. Annals of the American Thoracic Society.
- Identification of The Long Non-Coding RNA H19 as a New Biomarker and Therapeutic Target in Right Ventricular Failure in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. Circulation.
- The role of chemokines and chemokine receptors in pulmonary arterial hypertension. British Journal of Pharmacology.
- Incremental Shuttle Walking Test Distance Is Reduced in Patients With Pulmonary Hypertension in World Health Organisation Functional Class I. Frontiers in Medicine, 5. View this article in WRRO
- Elevated Plasma CXCL12α Is Associated with a Poorer Prognosis in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. PLOS ONE, 10(4), e0123709-e0123709. View this article in WRRO
- Editorial : pulmonary hypertension : mechanisms and management, history and future. Frontiers in Medicine, 7. View this article in WRRO
- From bones to blood pressure, developing novel biologic approaches targeting the osteoprotegein pathway for pulmonary vascular disease. Pharmacology & Therapeutics. View this article in WRRO
Chapters
- Pulmonary Hypertension, Foundations of Respiratory Medicine (pp. 315-330). Springer International Publishing
Conference proceedings papers
- Cardiac MRI right atrial area measurement thresholds for risk stratification in patients with PAH. Pulmonary hypertension
- Percent-predicted incremental shuttle walking test distance stratifies risk in pulmonary arterial hypertension. Pulmonary hypertension
- Sex bias exists in diagnosing pulmonary arterial hypertension via machine learning. Pulmonary hypertension
- Multi-omic profiling in pulmonary arterial hypertension. Pulmonary hypertension
- Feasibility of MicroRNA-Based Signatures for Early Detection of Pulmonary Hypertension Using Machine Learning Methods. D25. O BRAVE NEW WORLD! OMICS, SYSTEM BIOLOGY, AND NEW MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- The Anti-Osteoprotegerin (OPG) Antibody Ky3 Attenuates OPG-Fas Mediated Pulmonary Artery Smooth Muscle Cell Proliferation, Migration and Pro-Inflammatory Signalling In Vitro and In Vivo. A107. BYSTANDERS NO MORE: INFLAMMATION, IMMUNITY AND THROMBOSIS IN PULMONARY VASCULAR AND LUNG DISEASE
- Long Non-Coding RNA H19 Promotes Right Ventricular Failure in PAH. A93. TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH; EARLY CLINICAL FINDINGS AND OMICS ADVENTURE IN PULMONARY HYPERTENSION: FROM BIOMARKERS TO NEW THERAPEUTIC TARGETS
- Identification of Circulating Long Non-Coding RNA H19 as a Novel Biomarker for Right Ventricular Failure Associated with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. C105. WITH ALL MY HEART: SEX, ESTROGEN, AND RIGHT VENTRICLE IN PULMONARY VASCULAR DISEASE AND BEYOND
- Thoracic CT features of patients with BMPR2 mutation: preliminary analysis from the UK National Cohort Study of Idiopathic and Heritable PAH. Pulmonary hypertension
- A prospective study comparing the repeatability and sensitivity to change of non-invasive endpoints in pulmonary arterial hypertension: the RESPIRE study. Pulmonary hypertension
- Repeatability and Sensitivity to change of right ventricular analysis methods using cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in PAH: results from the RESPIRE Study. Imaging
- The Incremental Shuttle Walking Test Can Be Used to Risk Stratify Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension as Per the European Respiratory/Cardiac Society Guidelines. A105. GLORY DAYS: THE LATEST CLINICAL RESEARCH IN PAH
- Validating the Zebrafish Aortic Arch Development as a Model to Study the Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Idiopathic Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. C49. TICKET TO RIDE: EXPERIMENTAL MODELS OF PAH
- S40 Phenotypic characterisation of GDF2 mutation carriers in a large cohort of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension. Fundamental mechanisms of pulmonary arterial hypertension
- S43 Circulatory levels of microrna-34a expression identify patients with poor clinical outcome, and regulate pulmonary vascular cell phenotype. Fundamental mechanisms of pulmonary arterial hypertension
- T6 Vascular smooth muscle derived TRAIL underlies pulmonary vascular remodelling in sugen 5416/hypoxia mice. BTS/BALR/BLF Early Career Investigators awards symposium
- Real world data from hospital episode statistics can be used to determine patients at risk of idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension. Pulmonary hypertension
- Incremental shuttle walking test distance is reduced in patients with pulmonary hypertension in WHO Functional Class I. Pulmonary hypertension
- Incremental Shuttle Walk Test predicts survival in non-Group 1 Pulmonary Hypertension without a ceiling effect. Pulmonary hypertension
- 126 Endothelial endoglin is required to protect against high output heart failure. Basic Science
- P11 Plasma membrane calcium atpase 1 gene expression increases in vascular smooth muscle cells treated with inducers of pulmonary arterial hypertension. Abstracts
- S111 Altered neutrophil phenotypes in pulmonary arterial hypertension. Advances in understanding chronic thrombo-embolic disease and pulmonary hypertension
- P183 Impact of patient choice on survival in patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension offered pulmonary endarterectomy. Pulmonary vascular disease: monitoring and managing
- P612Feasibility and safety of a wireless pulmonary artery pressure monitoring system in chronic porcine models of pulmonary hypertension. European Heart Journal, Vol. 38(suppl_1) View this article in WRRO
- 156 Inducers of pulmonary arterial hypertension upregulate the expression of plasma membrane calcium atpase 1 in pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells. Heart, Vol. 103(Suppl 5) (pp A113.1-A113)
- S107 Genotype-phenotype associations in pulmonary arterial hypertension caused by BMPR2 and EIF2AK4 variants. Thorax, Vol. 71(Suppl 3) (pp A63-A64)
- S85 Reduction of CD68 macrophages causes gender specific spontaneous pulmonary arterial hypertension in mice. Thorax, Vol. 71(Suppl 3) (pp A49.1-A49)
- S104 Hypoxia preconditions the innate immune response to acute bacterial pulmonary infections. Thorax, Vol. 71(Suppl 3) (pp A61.2-A62)
- S87 Deficiency of toll-like receptor 3 (TLR3) exacerbates pulmonary hypertension in mice. Thorax, Vol. 71(Suppl 3) (pp A50.1-A50)
- P245 Whole blood levels of microrna-34a predict survival and regulate genes associated with pulmonary arterial hypertension. Thorax, Vol. 71(Suppl 3) (pp A220.2-A221)
- Idiopathic and systemic sclerosis-associated PAH: A comprehensive haemodynamic and radiological comparison. 4.3 Pulmonary Circulation and Pulmonary Vascular Diseases
- Age is independently associated with pulmonary arterial compliance in health and in patients with pulmonary vascular disease. 4.3 Pulmonary Circulation and Pulmonary Vascular Diseases
- Age is independently associated with pulmonary arterial compliance in health and in patients with pulmonary vascular disease. EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY JOURNAL, Vol. 48
- Idiopathic and systemic sclerosis-associated PAH: A comprehensive haemodynamic and radiological comparison. EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY JOURNAL, Vol. 48
- Chronic thrombo-embolic pulmonary hypertension: Long-term outcomes in operated and non-operated patients. 4.3 Pulmonary Circulation and Pulmonary Vascular Diseases
- E microRNA-140-5p and SMURF1 Regulate Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. Heart, Vol. 102(Suppl 6) (pp A147-A147)
- S3 Reduced BMPR2 expression potentiates a pulmonary artery smooth muscle cell specific IL-1ß response. Thorax, Vol. 70(Suppl 3) (pp A5.3-A6)
- T5 MicroRNA-140–5p Regulates Disease Phenotype in Experimental Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension via SMURF1. Thorax, Vol. 70(Suppl 3) (pp A3.1-A3)
- T5 Opg Regulates Pulmonary Arterial Smooth Muscle Cell Proliferation And The Expression Of Pah-associated Genes Via Fas. Thorax, Vol. 69(Suppl 2) (pp A2-A3)
- 183 Novel OPG Protein Interactions Regulate Survival, Proliferation And Pah-associated Gene Expression in Pulmonary Arterial Smooth Muscle Cells.. Heart, Vol. 100 Suppl 3 (pp A102-A103). England
- P157 Hepatocyte growth factor concentration correlates with haemodynamic severity in connective tissue disease-associated pulmonary arterial hypertension. Thorax, Vol. 68(Suppl 3) (pp A146.2-A147)
- Tumour necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand is a novel therapeutic target in pulmonary arterial hypertension. The Lancet, Vol. 381 (pp S47-S47)
- 03 Tissue Trail Drives Pulmonary Vascular Remodeling and its Inhibition Reverses Experimental Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. Heart, Vol. 98(Suppl 3) (pp A1.3-A1)
- Interplay Between Interleukin-1 And Dysfunctional BMP Signalling May Play A Role In The Pathogenesis Of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. B26. PULMONARY VASCULAR SIGNALING IN PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- Characterising Peripheral Blood Lymphocyte Subpopulations In Clinical And Experimental Pulmonary Hypertension. C28. DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- Characteristics And Outcomes In Pulmonary Hypertension Associated With COPD/ Emphysema: Results From The ASPIRE Registry. B107. BIOMARKERS AND PREDICTORS OF OUTCOMES IN PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
- Elucidating The Mechanism By Which Monocytes Can Inhibit Hypoxic PA-SMC Proliferation. D33. ASTHMA PATHOGENESIS
- SERUM OSTEOPROTEGERIN PREDICTS MORTALITY IN A PROSPECTIVE STUDY ON INCIDENT CASES OF PULMONARY ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION. THORAX, Vol. 66 (pp A34-A34)
- PULMONARY HYPERTENSION IN A MOUSE MODEL WITH REDUCED MACROPHAGE NUMBER (MACLOW). THORAX, Vol. 66 (pp A68-A69)
- THE ROLE OF TNF-RELATED APOPTOSIS INDUCING LIGAND (TRAIL) IN PULMONARY FIBROSIS. THORAX, Vol. 66 (pp A51-A52)
- TRAIL IS A POTENTIAL NOVEL THERAPEUTIC TARGET IN PULMONARY ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION. THORAX, Vol. 66 (pp A3-A3)
- PAIGEN DIET-FED APOLIPOPROTEIN E KNOCK-OUT MICE DEVELOP SEVERE PULMONARY HYPERTENSION IN AN INTERLEUKIN-1 DEPENDENT MANNER. HEART, Vol. 97(20) (pp 10-10)
- The Role Of TNF-Related Apoptosis Inducing Ligand (TRAIL) In Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF). D14. INSIGHTS INTO PATHOGENESIS OF LUNG FIBROSIS AND GRANULOMAS
- Beneficial Effects Of Inhibiting Trail In Monocrotaline-Induced Experimental Pulmonary Hypertension. B61. PULMONARY HYPERTENSION: EXPERIMENTAL MODELS I
- CHARACTERISING T CELL SUB-POPULATIONS IN PULMONARY HYPERTENSION. THORAX, Vol. 65 (pp A91-A91)
- TRAIL DEFICIENCY IS PROTECTIVE IN EXPERIMENTAL PULMONARY ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION. THORAX, Vol. 65 (pp A68-A68)
- TRAIL Deficiency Protects Fat-fed ApoE-/- Mice From Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. A96. INFLAMMATION AND BONE MARROW DERIVED CELLS IN PULMONARY ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION
- FAT-FED APOE/IL-1R1 DOUBLE-DEFICIENT MICE ARE PROTECTED FROM ATHEROSCLEROSIS BUT DEVELOP SEVERE PULMONARY HYPERTENSION. THORAX, Vol. 64 (pp A9-A10)
- OSTEOPROTEGERIN/TUMOUR NECROSIS FACTOR-RELATED APOPTOSIS-INDUCING LIGAND PATHWAY: A POTENTIAL BIOMARKER FOR PULMONARY ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION. THORAX, Vol. 64 (pp A58-A59)
- TRAIL EXPRESSION IS INCREASED IN THE RAT MONOCROTALINE MODEL OF PULMONARY ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION. THORAX, Vol. 64 (pp A8-A8)
- OSTEOPROTEGERIN EXPRESSION IS INCREASED PRIOR TO HAEMODYNAMIC ALTERATIONS IN THE RAT MONOCROTALINE MODEL OF PULMONARY ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION. THORAX, Vol. 64 (pp A9-A9)
- REGULATION OF EXPRESSION AND FUNCTION OF OSTEOPROTEGERIN IN PULMONARY ARTERY SMOOTH MUSCLE CELLS IN VITRO. THORAX, Vol. 64 (pp A9-A9)
- Osteoprotegerin is up-regulated by BMP-R2 RNA-interference and induces proliferation and migration of human pulmonary artery smooth cells in vitro. Vascular Pharmacology, Vol. 45(3) (pp e106-e106)
- Mts1/S100A4 stimulates human pulmonary artery smooth muscle cell migration through multiple signaling pathways.. Chest, Vol. 128(6 Suppl) (pp 577S). United States
- High frequency ultrasound enhances transfection of porcine vascular smooth muscle cells in vitro. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Vol. 31 (pp 25-25)
- TRAIL Deficient Mice Are Protected from Sugen/Hypoxia Induced Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. Diseases, Vol. 2(3) (pp 260-273) View this article in WRRO
Patents
Other
- Publisher Correction: Telomerecat: A ploidy-agnostic method for estimating telomere length from whole genome sequencing data. Scientific Reports, 8(1).
Preprints
- Enhanced neutrophil extracellular trap formation in COVID-19 is inhibited by the PKC inhibitor ruboxistaurin, medRxiv.
- Autoimmunity is a Significant Feature of Idiopathic Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension.
- Rare variant analysis of 4,241 pulmonary arterial hypertension cases from an international consortium implicate FBLN2, PDGFD and rare de novo variants in PAH, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
- Bayesian inference associates rare KDR variants with specific phenotypes in pulmonary arterial hypertension, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
- Genetic determinants of risk and survival in pulmonary arterial hypertension, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
- Identification of novel rare sequence variation underlying heritable pulmonary arterial hypertension, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
- Longitudinal lung function assessment of patients hospitalised with COVID-19 using 1H and 129Xe lung MRI, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
- Biological heterogeneity in idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension identified through unsupervised transcriptomic profiling of whole blood. Nature Communications, 12.
- Research group
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PhD Students
- Nur Nabila Abu Bakar
- Adam Briathwaite (Donald Heath Studentship)
- Peter Hickey (Donald Heath Clinical Training Fellow)
- Jianhui Lin (UoS/Tongji Studentship)
Group Members
- Nadine Arnold, Senior Scientific Officer
- Dr Josephine Pickworth, Post-doctoral Research Associate
- Dr Laura West, Post-doctoral Research Associate
- Dr Amira Zawia, Post-doctoral Research Associate
- Teaching interests
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I currently provide lectures on the molecular and cellular mechanism of pulmonary hypertension, the use of pre-clinical models and pharmacogenomics on the following courses:
- Professional activities and memberships
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- British Heart Foundation Project Grant Committee 2016-2020.
- Scleroderma & Raynaud’s UK Research Committee, 2017-present.
- Editorial Board Member of Pulmonary Circulation, 2017-present.
- Grant Reviewer for MRC, Wellcome Trust, BBSRC, Heart Research UK.
- Manuscript Reviewer for the leading journals in the field including Nature, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Circulation, Circulations Research, ATVB, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, European Respiratory Journal and Thorax.
- Fellow of the Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute (PVRI).
- Organising committee for the scientific programme at the PVRI 2021 Annual World Congress.