Research
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Research interests
- Study of the asthma susceptibility gene A Disintegrin and Metalloprotease 33 (ADAM33) in early life and adult asthma and other chronic lung diseases.
- Development of novel Anti-ADAM33 agents as potential disease modifying asthma therapy.
- Multiomic study of the influence of the maternal environment (e.g. allergic asthma, obesity) during pregnancy on ADAM33 and other mediators and the early origin of lung disease in the Maternal Environment in Pregnancy (MEP) cohort.
- Study of difficult-to-treat/severe asthma in the Wessex AsThma CoHort of Difficult Asthma (WATCH), a pragmatic real-life longitudinal study of difficult asthma in the clinic.
Research projects
Completed projects
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Sponsor: Medical Research Council
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Sponsor: Aair Charity
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Sponsor: Roger Brooke Charitable Trust
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Sponsor: Wessex Medical Research
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Publications
65 publications
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Katrien Eger,
Dora Paroczai,
Alison Bacon,
Florence Schleich,
Svetlana Sergejeva,
Arnaud Bourdin,
Isabelle Vachier,
Eleftherios Zervas,
Konstantinos Katsoulis,
Dimosthenis Papapetrou,
Konstantinos Kostikas,
Zsuzsanna Csoma,
Enrico Heffler,
Giorgio Walter Canonica,
Ineta Grisle,
Kristina Bieksiene,
Jolita Palacionyte,
Anneke Ten Brinke,
Simone Hashimoto,
Frank W.j.m. Smeenk,
Gert-jan Braunstahl,
Simone Van Der Sar,
Florin Mihălţan,
Natalia Nenasheva,
Marina Peredelskaya,
Biljana Zvezdin,
Ivan Čekerevac,
Sanja Hromiš,
Vojislav Ćupurdija,
Zorica Lazic,
Branislava Milenkovic,
Sanja Dimic-janjic,
Valentyna Yasinska,
Barbro Dahlén,
Apostolos Bossios,
Nikolaos Lazarinis,
David Aronsson,
Arne Egesten,
Abul Kashem Mohammad Munir,
Lars Ahlbeck,
Christer Janson,
Sabina Škrgat,
Natalija Edelbaher,
Joerg Leuppi,
Fabienne Jaun,
Jochen Rüdiger,
Nikolay Pavlov,
Pietro Gianella,
Reta Fischer,
Florian Charbonnier,
Rekha Chaudhuri,
Steven James Smith,
Simon Doe,
Michelle Fawdon,
Matthew Masoli,
Liam Heaney,
Olivia Fulton,
Betty Frankemölle,
Toni Gibson,
Karen Needham,
Peter Howarth,
Ratko Djukanovic,
Elisabeth Bel,
& Michael Hyland
, 2022
, ERJ Open Research
, 8 (2)
Type: article
Maria Victoria Humbert,
Joseph Bell,
Franco Conforti,
Elizabeth R Davies,
Mark G Jones,
Marta Polak,
Liku Tezera,
Alastair Watson,
& Tom M A Wilkinson
, 2022
, European Respiratory Journal
, 60 (2)
Type: article
Clair Barber,
Adnan Azim,
Colin Newell,
Aref Kyyaly,
Hitasha Rupani,
Peter Howarth,
, 2022
, Clinical & Experimental Allergy
, 52 (6) , 792--796
DOI: 10.1111/cea.14109
Type: letterEditorial
Judit Varkonyi-Sepp,
& Ben Ainsworth
, 2022
, Journal of Personalized Medicine
, 12 (9)
DOI: 10.3390/jpm12091435
Type: article
Wei Chern Gavin Fong,
Ishmail Rafiq,
Matthew Harvey,
Ben Ainsworth,
Judit Varkonyi-Sepp,
Heena Mistry,
Mohammed Aref Kyyaly,
Clair Barber,
Anna Freeman,
Tom Wilkinson,
Ratko Djukanovic,
Paddy Dennison,
, 2022
, Journal of Personalized Medicine
, 12 (5)
DOI: 10.3390/jpm12050686
Type: article
Wei Chern Gavin Fong,
Florina Borca,
Hang Phan,
Helen E Moyses,
Paddy Dennison,
& Hans Michael Haitchi
, 2021
, Clinical & Experimental Allergy
, 51 (7) , 939--941
DOI: 10.1111/cea.13855
Type: letterEditorial
Adnan Azim,
Colin Newell,
Clair Barber,
Matthew Harvey,
Deborah Knight,
Anna Freeman,
Wei Chern Gavin Fong,
Paddy Dennison,
& Peter Howarth
, 2021
, Clinical & Experimental Allergy
, 51 (6) , 811--820
DOI: 10.1111/cea.13841
Type: article
Heena Mistry,
Hilda Maria Ajsivinac Soberanis,
Mohammad Aref Kyyaly,
Adnan Azim,
Clair Barber,
Deborah Knight,
Colin Newell,
Peter Howarth,
Grégory Seumois,
Pandurangan Vijayanand,
, 2021
, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice
, 9 (12) , 4254--4267.e10
Type: article
Anna Freeman,
Audrey Lavenu,
Heena Mistry,
Hans Michael Haitchi,
Colin Newell,
Yueqing Cheng,
Yvette Thirlwall,
Matthew Harvey,
Clair Barber,
Katarina Pontoppidan,
Paddy Dennison,
S. Hasan Arshad,
Peter Howarth,
, 2020
, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice
, 8 (10) , 3396--3406.e4
Type: article
Anna T Freeman,
David Hill,
Colin Newell,
Helen Moyses,
Deborah Knight,
Laura Presland,
Matthew Harvey,
Hans Michael Haitchi,
Alastair Watson,
& Tom M A Wilkinson
, 2020
, Asthma Research and Practice
, 6 , 5
Type: article
External roles and responsibilities
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Medical Research Foundation (MRF) trustee, London, UK (External organisation)
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2020
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Collegium International Allergologicum, USA (External organisation)
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2018
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University Hospital Southampton (External organisation)
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Chair
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2017
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NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centr, Respiratory and Critical Care Theme Management Board, Southampton, UK (External organisation)
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2016
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University of Southampton (External organisation)
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2013 - 2016
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U-BIOPRED (Unbiased Biomarkers for the Predictions of Respiratory Disease Outcomes) Alliance , Belgium, EU (External organisation)
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2021
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Severe Heterogeneous Asthma Registry, Patient-centered, a Clinical Research Collaboration (SHARP-CRC) sponsored by the European Respiratory Society (ERS) (External organisation), Switzerland (External organisation)
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2021
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University of Cincinnati College of Medicine (External organisation)
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2010 - 2011
Biography
Having graduated with a Doctor of Medicine in 1990 Dr Haitchi trained as an Emergency Physician and General Practitioner in Austria. In 1996 he moved to South Africa where he completed his specialist training in Internal Medicine with a special interest in Pulmonary Medicine at Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town in 2001. He also graduated with a Master in Medicine (Internal Medicine) in 2020. Coming as Clinical Research Fellow to Southampton in England in 2001 he completed his Doctor of Philosophy in Molecular Biology in 2008 and his Postgraduate Certificate in Education in 2009 and became a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). He holds an affiliate membership of the Royal College of Physicians since 2011 and was awarded the title of ‘Privatdozent’ for Pneumology at the Private Medical University Salzburg, Austria in 2014.
Dr Haitchi held a Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinician Scientist Fellowship from 2010 to 2014 in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Southampton. This MRC fellowship took him from 2010-2011 to the USA, where he did research as a visiting scientist and scholar in Professor Whitsett's pulmonary biology lab in Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
Funding:
AAIR charity, Asthma UK, BLF, BMA, EPSRC, MRC, MRF, NC3Rs, FoM, Roger Brooke Charitable Trust, Wessex Medical Research.
Collaborations:
- UK: Imperial College London, University of Southampton.
- EU: Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Graz, SHARP-CRC, U-BIOPRED
- USA: Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Wayne State University.
Qualifications
- DM, University of Graz, Austria 1990
- MMed (INT), University of Stellenbosch, South Africa 2000
- PhD, University of Southampton, UK 2008
- PGcert, University of Southampton, UK 2009
- MRCP (London), Royal College of Physicians, 2011
- PD, Priv. Doz., Paracelsus Medical University (PMU) Salzburg, Austria 2014
Appointments held
- Associate Professor in Respiratory Medicine & Clinician Scientist, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, UK 2014-present
- Senior Lecturer in Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, UK 2011 – 2014
- MRC Clinician Scientist, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, UK 2010 – 2014
- Visiting Scientist and Scholar, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, US, 2010-2011
- Honorary Consultant Physician, Southampton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, UK, 2009-present
- Clinical Research Fellow, Division of Infection, Inflammation & Repair, School of Medicine, University of Southampton, UK, 2001-2009
- Registrar (Clinical assistant), Stellenbosch University Hospital Tygerberg, Department of Internal Medicine, Cape Town, South Africa, 1996-2001
- House and Medical Officer, Private Hospital “Barmherzige Brüder” and University Hospital Graz, Austria, 1992-1995
- Military assistant medical doctor, Federal Ministry of Defence, Austria, 1991-1992
- Research Fellow, AVL Medical Instruments, Graz, Austria, 1991
Prizes
- Alain de Weck Travel Grant for 32st Symposium, Collegium International Allergologicum, Mallorca, Spain. (2018)
- "Privatdozent" for Pneumology (2014)
- Alain de Weck Travel Grant for the 29th Symposium, Collegium International Allergologicum, Jeju Island, South Korea (2012)
- Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinician Scientist Fellowship 2009 - 2014 (2009)
- Postdoctoral Oral Presentation Prize at Postdoctoral Association Conference 2009, Southampton UK (2009)
- Asthma UK Travel Award to ERS Congress 2009, Vienna, Austria (2009)
- Royal College of Physicians, London, GB - Young investigator price at Medical Research Society Clinician Scientist in training meeting 2008, London, UK (2008)
- British Lung Foundation, Allen & Hansburys Travel Fellowship to ERS Congress 2006, Munich, Germany (2006)
- British Lung Foundation, Boehringer Ingelheim Travel Fellowship to ERS Congress 2005, Copenhagen, Denmark (2005)
- Pfizer Academic Travel Award to European Respiratory Society (ERS) Congress 2003, Vienna, Austria (2003)