Professor Moira Whyte
MRC bodies you are a member of:
- PSMB
Main form of employment:
- Professor of Respiratory Medicine, Head, Department of Infection & Immunity, University of Sheffield
Research group/department web page/s:
- http://www.shef.ac.uk/infectionandimmunity
- http://www.shef.ac.uk/infectionandimmunity/units/respiratory
- http://www.shef.ac.uk/infectionandimmunity/staffprofiles/whyte
Personal remuneration:
- Salary(University of Sheffield)
Shareholdings and financial interests in companies
- None
Research income during current session [over £50k per grant]
- NIHR PhD Studentship (2008-2012) £81,468 Supervisors Dr Sarah Walmsley and Moira Whyte “An investigation of myeloid cell pro-inflammatory functions in patients with pulmonary hypertension”
- MRC Centre for Developmental and Biomedical Genetics Ref. G0700091 (2007-2012) £2,383,148. PI, Professor Phil Ingham, one of 12 named applicants and Deputy Director (Clinical).
- NIHR Biomedical Research Unit in Cardiovascular Disease (2008-2012) £3.75M over 4 years and approx £2M capital costs. PI, Professor David Crossman, one of 6 named co-applicants
- MRC Research Grant G0802065 (2009-2012) £365,000 "Does the presence of thrombophilia increase the risk of developing idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis?" PI Professor Richard Hubbard (University of Nottingham), one of 6 co-applicants
- MRC Clinical Training Fellowship for Dr. Roger Thompson G0802255 (2009-2012) £248,948 as Sponsor and Supervisor. “The role of HIF-2 in neutrophilic inflammation”.
- MRC Research Grant G0801983 (2009-2013) £712,005 "The mechanisms of TLR- mediated regulation of neutrophil survival" Joint PI with Professor Ian Sabroe.
- MRC Partnership Grant G1001372 (The MRC ABPI Initiative in COPD) (2011-2015) £7M total over 4 years. Sheffield (PI Whyte) is one of 10 centres with approx £400K for a project entitled “Mechanisms, impact and therapeutic targeting of bacterial colonisation in COPD”
- Royal Thai Government PhD Studentship (2011-2015) £100K for Suttida Eamsamarng “The role of Sema3F in the regulation of tissue responses to hypoxia”
Major academic collaborators [national and international]
- Joint MRC Project Grant with Professor Richard Hubbard, University of Nottingham
- MRC Partnership Grant via the COPD MAP Programme – my immediate collaborators are Professor Peter Barnes (Imperial College London), Professor Wisia Wedzicha (UCL) and Professor Rob Stockley (University of Birmingham)
Un-remunerated involvement with and membership of medical, bio-medical, pharmaceutical, healthcare provision or science or health policy/communication and similar activities/organisations
- MRC/NIHR Efficacy and Mechanisms Evaluation Board (EME), Deputy Chair to 2013
- Academy of Medical Sciences Clinical Research Champion (current)
- Member of the Athena Forum (current)
- Member of the Salvesen Research Trust External Advisory Board, University of Edinburgh
Political/pressure group associations:
- None
Family:
- University of East Anglia (family)
