About the Authors

Nicholas Glanville

Affiliation Airway Disease Infection Section, National Heart and Lung Institute, MRC & Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Tamlyn J. Peel

Current address: Centre for Molecular & Cellular Biology of Inflammation, Division of Immunology, Infection and Inflammatory Diseases, King’s College School of Medicine, Guy’s Campus, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

Affiliation Airway Disease Infection Section, National Heart and Lung Institute, MRC & Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Armin Schröder

Affiliation Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Lung Immunology, Department of Molecular Pneumology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

Julia Aniscenko

Affiliation Airway Disease Infection Section, National Heart and Lung Institute, MRC & Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Ross P. Walton

Affiliation Airway Disease Infection Section, National Heart and Lung Institute, MRC & Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Susetta Finotto

Affiliation Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Lung Immunology, Department of Molecular Pneumology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

Sebastian L. Johnston

s.johnston@imperial.ac.uk

Affiliation Airway Disease Infection Section, National Heart and Lung Institute, MRC & Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

Professor Johnston has recieved grants and personal fees from Centocor, grants and personal fees from Sanofi Pasteur, grants and personal fees from GSK, grants and personal fees from Chiesi, grants and personal fees from Boehringer Ingelheim, personal fees from Grünenthal, grants and personal fees from Novartis, grants, personal fees and Shareholding from Synairgen, outside the submitted work. In addition, Professor Johnston has patents as follows. Blair ED, Killington RA, Rowlands DJ, Clarke NJ, Johnston SL. Transgenic animal models of HRV with human ICAM-1 sequences. UK patent application No. 02 167 29.4, 18 July 2002 and International patent application No. PCT/EP2003/007939, 17 July 2003. licensed, 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. licensed, 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. licensed, a patent Wark PA, Johnston SL, Holgate ST, Davies DE. The use of Interferon Lambda for the treatment and prevention of virally-induced exacerbation in asthma and chronic pulmonary obstructive disease. UK patent application No. 0518425.4, 9 September 2005. licensed, a patent Wark PA, Johnston SL, Holgate ST, Davies DE. Anti-Virus Therapy for Respiratory Diseases. US Patent Application – 11/517,763, Patent No.7569216, National Phase of PCT/GB2005/050031, 04 August 2009. licensed, a patent Wark PA, Johnston SL, Holgate ST, Davies DE. Interferon-beta for Anti-Virus Therapy for Respiratory Diseases. European Patent Number 1734987, 5 May 2010. licensed, a patent Wark PA, Johnston SL, Holgate ST, Davies DE. Anti-Virus Therapy for Respiratory Diseases (IFNb therapy) Hong Kong Patent Number 1097181, 31 August 2010. licensed, a patent Wark PA, Johnston SL, Holgate ST, Davies DE. Anti-Virus Therapy for Respiratory Diseases (IFNb therapy). Japanese Patent Number 4807526, 26 August 2011. licensed, a patent Wark PA, Johnston SL, Holgate ST, Davies DE. Interferon-beta for Anti-Virus Therapy for Respiratory Diseases. New Hong Kong - Divisional Patent Application No. 11100187.0, 10 January 2011. licensed, and a patent Burdin N, Almond J, Lecouturieir, V, Girerd-Chambaz Y, Guy, B, Bartlett N, Walton R, McLean G, Glanville N, Johnston SL. Induction of cross-reactive cellular response against rhinovirus antigens European Patent Number 13305152, 4 April 2013. pending. NG and RPW are also inventors of the patent, Induction of cross-reactive cellular response against rhinovirus antigens.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SLJ NG SF RPW. Formal analysis: NG. Funding acquisition: SLJ SF RPW. Investigation: NG AS TJP JA RPW. Methodology: RPW SLJ SF NG. Project administration: SLJ NG SF. Supervision: SLJ SF. Visualization: NG. Writing – original draft: NG SLJ TJP. Writing – review & editing: NG SLJ TJP SF RPW JA.