Dr Claire Jackson

Dr Claire Jackson is a Senior Research Fellow within the primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) group and is affiliated to the University of Southampton Faculty of Medicine (within Clinical and Experimental Sciences).  She holds an honorary contract with the University Hospitals Southampton NHS Foundation Trust.  Claire is also an affiliated member of the NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, the Institute for Life Sciences, and the Global Network for Anti-Microbial Resistnace and Infection Prevention. 

Since 2007, Dr Claire Jackson works closely with the Southampton Biomedical Imaging Unit and has developed specialist PCD diagnostic testing, particularly high-speed video microscopsy imaging of cilia and airway culture modelling.  This culture platform has provided a bio-resource of rare airway samples and has been used to test the effects of drugs (e.g., premature stop codon read-though therapies, complex sugars to block pseudomonas lectin, and antibiotics with nitric oxide donors), examine bacterial and respiratory viral infections, and was instrumental in the discovery of short ACE2 isoform in airway epithelial cells (published in Nature Genetics 2021; also presented at the European Resiratory Society Congress and in a Nature Microbiology Community blog).  Claire is currently developing a library of CRISPR edited PCD cell lines to support international PCD research efforts. 

Claire is internationally and nationally networked via http://beat-pcd.squarespace.com, https://europeanlung.org, https://www.cilianetwork.org.uk, https://pcdsupport.org.uk and within the NHS England commissioned PCD national service; and she was cited a top 10 twitter influencer (@_Claire_Jackson) at the European Respiratory Society Congress in 2021.  

Prizes

• Iain Cameron Research Publication Prize (2021)
• PERu Innovation Prize (2016)
• Dean’s Citizenship Award (2016)
• BLF & BLF/BPRS travel fellowship (2015)
• Best oral presentation (2015)
• Best poster prize (2012)
• Best oral presentation (2007)
• Best oral presentation (2004)
• Accredited 'Engager Mentor' (2022)