Winners of the BTS/BALR/A+LUK Lecture awards 2025

BTS/Asthma + Lung UK

Dr Jennifer Dickens
Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, at Addenbrooke’s and Royal Papworth Hospitals, Cambridge,

Insights into lung diseases from foetal organoids 

Dr Jenny Dickens is an Action for Pulmonary Fibrosis Mike Bray Research Fellow and Group Leader in the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, and an Honorary Consultant at Addenbrooke’s and Royal Papworth Hospitals. She has a research and clinical interest in interstitial lung disease with particular focus on familial pulmonary fibrosis.  

She works with novel alveolar organoid models to understand the triggers of epithelial dysfunction in ILD, including how surfactant protein variants are handled in health and disease. She has developed the familial pulmonary fibrosis service at Royal Papworth Hospital, is academic training rep' for the East of England Deanery and is an Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust Research Advisory Committee Member. 

BTS/BALR Award Winner 

Dr Lindsay Broadbent 
Section of Virology, University of Surrey, UK 

Unmasking the long-term effects of respiratory virus infection 

Dr Lindsay Broadbent joined the Section of Virology at the University of Surrey as a Lecturer in July 2022. Previously, Lindsay was a Wellcome Trust ISSF Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast. Her research focuses on respiratory virus-host interactions and subsequent innate immune responses. 

Lindsay’s expertise in developing 3D human primary airway cell cultures facilitates investigation of virus infection in a physiologically and morphologically relevant model. Her current research is directed towards the role of respiratory viruses in longer-term lung damage and the development and progression of chronic lung disease. In addition to her research, Lindsay delivers teaching and is the Programme Director for Microbiology at the University of Surrey. She is also involved with science communication and has taken part in hundreds of media appearances and outreach events.