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Past Outputs

Past Outputs
List of 2012 Grants
  1. Indoor Air Pollution and Health. Irish Environmental Protection Agency. €351,842. 2008.
  2. Reducing families exposure to secondhand smoke at home (REFRESH). Big Lottery Foundation £499,566. 2009.
  3. Integrated Exposure for Risk Assessment in Indoor Environments (INTERA). CEFIC-LRI. €395,864. 2009.
  4. The take-home burden of workplace asthmagenic sensitisers: Alpha Amylase Exposure in Bakers’ Families. BUPA Foundation. £19,169. 2011.
  5. Validation of a new air quality monitor for smoking interventions. Scottish School of Public Health. £5,673. 2011.
  6. The Potential of Small-Scale Biogas Digesters to Improve Livelihoods and Long Term Sustainability of Ecosystem Services in Sub-Saharan Africa. Department for International Development, UK. £199,896. 2012.
  7. Study of asthma to investigate in uteroeffects of diet. (SAUDI). February 2010-January 2014. £35,000 Saudi Ministry of Higher Education.
  8. The Effect of Montelukast on Inflammatory responses of nasal epithelial cells cultured from patients with asthma, with and without concomitant allergic rhinitis. 36765 IISP Feb 2011-May 2012. £70,777 Merck Investigator-initiated Studies Program. 
  9. Antenatal influences on, and inter-relationships between, airway epithelial cell responses and lung function in neonates. CAF/10/06 August 2010 – July 2013. £209,642 Chief Scientists Office of the Scottish Executive.
  10. Airway epithelial cell phenotype in asthma and wheezing conditions. October 2010- September 2013. £75,000 ARCHIE charity.
  11. Investigator-initiated Study. Prescribing and dispensing practice for Asthma medication in Scotland. March 2011- February 2013. £125,000 Glaxo Smith Kline.
  12. Development and clinical piloting of a dietary soup intervention during pregnancy with the aim of reducing the likelihood of childhood asthma. Jan 2012 –June 2013. £52,487, Knowledge Exchange Transfer Fund,
  13. Volatile organic compounds and risk of asthma and allergy: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational and interventional studies. CZG/2/573. June 2012-December 2012. £40,806, Chief Scientists Office of the Scottish Executive.  
  14. A study of trends in childhood obesity in North East Scotland. May 2010. £20,000. NHS Grampian. 
  15. MICA: STELAR (Study Team for Early Life Asthma Research) consortium - Asthma e-lab and identification of novel endotypes of childhood asthma. £1,490,550, Medical Research Council.
  16. Ex vivo assessment of the mucolytic and antibacterial capacity of Lynovex. £5,000. Scottish Enterprise.
Scientific Papers 2011-2012
  1. Fullerton DG, Suseno A, Semple S, Kalambo F, Malamba R, White S, Jack S, Calverley PM, Gordon SB. Wood smoke exposure, poverty and impaired lung function in Malawian adults. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2011 Mar;15(3):391-8.
  2. Paudyal P, Semple S, Niven R, Tavernier G, Ayres JG. Exposure to Dust and Endotoxin in Textile Processing Workers. Ann Occup Hyg. 2011 May;55(4):403-9.
  3. Visser MJ, Behroozy A, Verberk MM, Semple S, Kezic S. Quantification of Wet-Work Exposure in Nurses Using a Newly Developed Wet-Work Exposure Monitor. Ann Occup Hyg. 2011 Aug;55(7):810-6.
  4. Steiner MF, Dick FD, Scaife AR, Semple S, Paudyal P, Ayres JG. High prevalence of skin symptoms among bakery workers. Occup Med (Lond). 2011 Jun;61(4):280-2.
  5. Kurmi OP, Gaihre S, Semple S, Ayres JG. Acute exposure to biomass smoke causes oxygen desaturation in adult women. Thorax. 2011 Aug;66(8):724-5.
  6. Abidin EZ, Semple S, Omar A, Rahman HA, Turner SW, Ayres JG. A survey of schoolchildren's exposure to secondhand smoke in Malaysia. BMC Public Health. 2011 Aug 8;11:634. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-634.
  7. Semple S, Garden C, Coggins M, Galea KS, Whelan P, Cowie H, Sánchez-Jiménez A, Thorne PS, Hurley JF, Ayres JG. Contribution of solid fuel, gas combustion, or tobacco smoke to indoor air pollutant concentrations in Irish and Scottish homes. Indoor Air. 2011 Oct 18. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0668.2011.00755.x. [Epub ahead of print]
  8. Apsley A, Semple S. Secondhand smoke levels in Scottish bars 5 years on from the introduction of smoke-free legislation. Tob Control. 2011 Oct 20. [Epub ahead of print]
  9. Semple S, Apsley A, Galea KS, Maccalman L, Friel B, Snelgrove V. Secondhand smoke in cars: assessing children's potential exposure during typical journey conditions. Tob Control. 2012 Jan 4. [Epub ahead of print]
  10. Allan K, Devereux G. Diet and asthma: nutritional implications from prevention to treatment. J Acad Nutr Diet 2011;111:258-268.
  11. Grose D, Devereux G,Brown L, Jones R, Sharma D, Selby C, Morrison DS, Docherty K, McIntosh D, Louden G,  Downer P, Nicolson M, Milroy R. Variation in co-morbidity and clinical management in newly diagnosed lung cancer patients in four Scottish centres. Journal Thoracic Oncology 2011; 6:500-9.
  12. Devereux G, Wagner JG. Vitamin D and asthma: scientific promise and clinical reality. Curr Resp Med Rev 2011; 7, 408-413 .
  13. Nurmatov U, Devereux G, Sheikh A. Nutrients and foods for the primary prevention of asthma and allergy: systematic review and meta-analysis. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2011; 127: 724-33.
  14. Tagiyeva N, Semple S, Devereux G,Sherriff A, Henderson J, Elias P, Ayres JG. Reconstructing past occupational exposures: How reliable are women’s reports of their partner’s occupation? Occ Env Med 2011; 68:452-6.
  15. Grose D, Devereux G,Milroy R. Co-morbidity in lung cancer- important but neglected. A review of the current literature. Clinical Lung Cancer 2011; 12:207-11.
  16. Kippelen P, Tufvesson E, Bolger C, Devereux GS, Ayres JG, Bjermer L,Sue-Chu M. Hyperpnoea-induced bronchoconstriction and urinary CC16 levels in athletes. Med Sci Sports Exercise 2011; 43:1207-13.
  17. Turner S, Prabhu N, Danielian P, McNeill G, Craig L, Allan K, Cutts R, Helms P, Seaton A, Devereux G. First and second trimester fetal size and asthma outcomes at age ten years. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2011; 184:407-413.
  18. Clark J, Craig L, McNeill G, Smith N, Norrie J, Devereux G.A novel dietary intervention to optimize vitamin E intake of pregnant women to 15mg/day. J Acad Nutr Diet 2012;112:297-301.
  19. Bolger C, Tufvesson E, Anderson SD, Devereux G,Ayres JG, Bjermer L, Sue-Chu M, Kippelen P. The effect of inspired air conditions on exercise-induced bronchoconstriction and urinary CC16 levels in athletes. Journal of Applied Physiology (In Press).
  20. Turner SW, Devereux G. Fetal ultrasound: shedding light or casting shadows on the fetal origins of airways disease. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2012;185:694-5.
  21. Walker C, Danby S, Turner SW. Impact of a bronchiolitis clinical care pathway on hospital stay.  Eur J Pediatr2011 in press
  22. Turner S.  Perinatal Programming of Childhood Asthma: Early Fetal Size, Growth Trajectory during Infancy, and Childhood Asthma Outcomes," Clinical and Developmental Immunology, vol. 2012, Article ID 962923, 9 pages, 2012. doi:10.1155/2012/962923
  23. Tagiyeva N, Anua SM, Semple S, Dick F, Devereux G.The ‘take home’ burden of workplace sensitizers: flour contamination in bakers’ families. Environ Int 2012; 46:44-9.
  24. Murchie P, Smith S, Devereux G,Johnston M, Lee AJ, Macleod U, Nicolson M, Powell R, Campbell N, Ritchie LD, Wyke S. Developing a complex intervention to reduce time to presentation with symptoms of lung cancer. Br J General Practice 2012; 62:605-15,
  25. Nurmatov U, Venderbosch I, Devereux G, Simons FER, Sheikh A. Allergen-specific oral immunotherapy for peanut allergy. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews2012, Issue 9. Art. No.: CD009014. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD009014.pub2.
  26. Pringle EJ, Richardson HB, Miller D, Cornish DS, Devereux GS, Walsh GM, Turner SW.Nasal and bronchial airway epithelial cell mediator release in children. Pediatric Pulmonology (in press).
  27. Al-Makoshi A, Al-Frayh A, Turner S, Devereux G. Breastfeeding practice and its association with respiratory symptoms and atopic disease in 1-3 year old children in the City of Riyadh, Central Saudi Arabia. Breast Feeding Medicine. (In press).
  28. Kurmi OP, Devereux GS, Smith WCS, Semple S, Steiner MFC,Simkhada P, Lam KH, Ayres JG. Reduced lung function due to biomass smoke exposure in young adults in rural Nepal. Eur Respir J. (In press).
  29. Mills L, Semple S, Wilson I, Ritchie D, Amos A, Turner SW. Factors influencing exposure to secondhand smoke in pre-school children living with smoking mothers.  Nicotine and tobacco research 2012(in press)
  30. Nurmatov U, Nwaru BI, Devereux G, Sheikh A. Confounding and effect modification in studies of diet and childhood asthma and allergies. Allergy 2012; 67: 1041-59.