£5 – For equipment to take blood from a patient with pulmonary fibrosis/IPF for research.
£10 – For a specialised test to look at novel biomarkers in the blood of IPF patients.
£20 – For staining slides of lung tissue from IPF patients to study novel molecules and link these with molecular imaging scans.
£30 – For an hour of a clinical fellow.
£40 – For growing individual fibroblasts (cells that produce the scarring) in the lab from the lungs of patients with IPF.
£50 – For analysis of a novel molecular imaging (PET) scan in an IPF patient.
£100 – For tests for biomarkers on 10 patient samples.
£500 – For isolating platelets from IPF lungs to compare with platelets from healthy lungs in the lab.
£5000 – For equipment and running costs for a ‘Western Bot’ which allows us to look at abnormal proteins in the lungs of IPF patients.
£50,000 – For pump priming a blue sky research proposal: Allows a senior clinician to undertake a substantial period of research (a year or more) as a named research fellow to develop an hypothesis that is then submitted for full funding (£300K+) from a medical research charity.