Regis, Eteri
Fontanella, Sara
Lin, Lijing
Howard, Rebecca
Haider, Sadia
Curtin, John A.
Edwards, Michael R.
Rattray, Magnus
Simpson, Angela
Custovic, Adnan
Johnston, Sebastian L.
Article History
Received: 2 July 2021
Accepted: 23 November 2021
First Online: 9 December 2021
Competing interests
: Dr. Johnston reports personal fees from Virtus Respiratory Research, personal fees from Myelo Therapeutics GmbH, personal fees from Concert Pharmaceuticals, personal fees from Bayer, personal fees from Synairgen, personal fees from Novartis, personal fees from Boehringer Ingelheim, personal fees from Chiesi, personal fees from Gerson Lehrman Group, personal fees from resTORbio, personal fees from Bioforce, personal fees from Materia Medical Holdings, personal fees from PrepBio Pharma, personal fees from Pulmotect, personal fees from Virion Health, personal fees from Lallemand Pharma, personal fees from AstraZeneca, outside the submitted work; In addition, Dr. Johnston has a patent Wark PA, Johnston SL, Holgate ST, Davies DE. Anti-virus therapy for respiratory diseases. UK patent application No. GB 0405634.7, 12 March 2004. with royalties paid, a patent Wark PA, Johnston SL, Holgate ST, Davies DE. Interferon-Beta for Anti-Virus Therapy for Respiratory Diseases. International Patent Application No. PCT/GB05/50031, 12 March 2004. with royalties paid, and a patent Davies DE, Wark PA, Holgate ST, Johnston SL. Interferon Lambda therapy for the treatment of respiratory disease. UK patent application No.6779645.9, granted 15th August 2012. licensed. Dr. Custovic reports personal fees from Novartis, personal fees from Thermo Fisher Scientific, personal fees from Philips, personal fees from Sanofi, personal fees from Stallergenes Greer, outside the submitted work. Dr. Simpson reports grants from MRC, grants from NIHR BRC, during the conduct of the study. Dr. Rattrey reports a consultancy with AstraZeneca. Dr. Curtin reports a patent with the University of California at San Francisco, unrelated to the submitted work. The rest of the authors declare that they have no relevant conflicts of interest.