Dr Claire Jackson, University of Southampton Principal Research Fellow and lead of the NHS funded Southampton primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) centre diagnostic laboratory.

Dr Jackson has developed cilia imaging and advanced nasal epithelial cell culture modelling and a bio-resource of rare airway samples at Southampton since 2007. She has contributed over 35 papers, 40 conference abstracts and a book chapter in PCD and is world leading on PCD diagnostics.

Claire is a funded PI, connected and leading within the BEAT-PCD Clinical Research Collaboration and National NHS PCD service. From Southampton she is developing research into new molecular and multi-omics approaches to discover new disease-causing variants and is incorporating use of CRISPR gene editing to develop PCD cell lines for molecular therapy testing, infection and pollution modelling. She is also collaborating with cross-Faculty colleagues to develop new AI-led data analyses methods.