Biographies
Team Members

Dr Claire Jackson
Researcher

Dr Claire Jackson, University of Southampton Senior 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 modelling and a bio-resource of rare airway samples at Southampton since 2007. She has contributed over 35 papers (11 first and 2 last authorships; incl. Nature Genetics and European Respiratory Journal), 40 conference abstracts and a book chapter (>2300 citations, h-index 22, May 2025) in PCD, ciliated epithelial cell biology and airway microbial infection.  

Dr Jackson leads a Work Packages — BEAT-PCD  for the international ‘BEAT-PCD Clinical Research Collaboration’ network and has delivered expert Training — BEAT-PCD, including been  an invited speaker at the British Thoracic Society Winter Meeting and University College London Rare Ciliopathies Symposium and to PCD Support UK patients PCD Live!. 

As well are leading PCD model development at Southampton within LifeArc, Dr Jackson is collaborating on an €8 million European/Italian Space Agencies SciSpaceE project “investigating cellular stress during spaceflight” and leading a collaborative £233K GOSH national call (2024) project “Uplifting genetic detection of rare lung diseases”. Dr Jackson has a previous track record of PCD research funding as lead or co-investigator totalling >£299K since 2007 (incl. UKRI, Allergy Asthma & Immunology Research Charity, British Lung Foundation, Global Network for Anti-Microbial Resistance & Infection Prevention, and Wessex Medical Research Innovation).