Pulmonary Fibrosis Wish List

We often get questions from our lovely supporters as to how they can help us with our vital research work into pulmonary fibrosis and what they can fundraise towards.  We have updated our pulmonary fibrosis wish list with this in mind and thought this may help:

£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 IPF lungs to study novel molecules and link these with molecular imaging scans.

£30             For growing individual fibroblasts in the lab from the lungs of patients with IPF.

£40             For an hour of a Clinical Fellow.

£50             For analysis of a novel molecular imaging (PET) scan in an IPF patient.

£100           To carry out tests for novel biomarkers on 10 patient samples.

£500           For isolating platelets from IPF lungs to compare in the lab to platelets from normal lungs.

£500          To recruit 5 patients to a spirometry home monitoring study to detect early exacerbations of ILD.

£1,000        For a new magnet for cell isolation.

£3,000       For a new centrifuge.

£5,000       For a computer for complex data analysis.

£5,000       Towards a ‘Western Bot’ which allows us to look at abnormal proteins in IPF lungs.

£10,000      To fund PET scans using novel molecular imaging tracers.

£12,000      For single cell analysis in rheumatoid arthritis related ILD.

£15,000      Towards a clinical trial in Dornase Alfa in acute exacerbations of IPF.

£20,000     To develop a breath test to detect pulmonary fibrosis. 

£30,000     To fund a named PDRA/Scientist for one year.

£45,000      To fund a named postgraduate Clinical Research Fellow for one year. 

£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.