Severe Asthma Patient Conference 2025

University of Southampton, United Kingdom

Dominique Hamerlijnck has a Masters in Philosophy, specialised in ethics and a Masters in Business Administration. Dominique is one of the European Patients’ Academy on Therapeutic Innovation (EUPATI) fellows. Dominique has worked as a patient expert especially in the field of severe asthma. She has been successful in getting the patient voice heard and included in development in care and medicine and device development. Dominique is involved in the SHARP Severe Heterogenous Asthma Research collaboration, Patient-Centered Clinical Research Collaboration and many other research projects.

Prof. Florence Schleich is a pneumologist and researcher at the University of Liège (CHU Liège). Her research focuses on airway inflammation, asthma phenotyping, and biomarkers to guide precision medicine. She has leadership roles in the Belgian respiratory society and also co-chairs the SHARP Clinical Research Collaboration of the European Respiratory Society.

Hilary Hodge is a severe asthma patient and the patient co-chair of SHARP, a European project aiming to improve outcomes in severe asthma. Originally from the United States, Hilary now lives in France.

Dr Ramesh Kurukulaaratchy is Associate Professor at the University of Southampton and Honorary Consultant in Respiratory & General Medicine plus Allergy at University Hospital Southampton, United Kingdom (UK). Ramesh led the Regional Difficult Asthma Clinic at Southampton for 11-years and developed it as a multidisciplinary team. His research interests include studying the development of asthma and allergy across the lifetime, identifying predictors of asthma and allergy-risk and potential ways of preventing asthma and allergy development. He is involved in several long-term asthma and allergy studies through the Isle of Wight research group. He also leads the WATCH study of difficult asthma at Southampton, studying difficult asthma subtypes at both clinical and molecular levels and has a particular interest in the concept of multimorbidity.

My name is Rikki Müller, I'm 60, and I've suffered from respiratory conditions since I was born.
My lungs conditions include Asthma, Bronchiectasis, and COPD, and I have a number of other conditions in my sinuses, nose, throat, and heart that interact with my respiratory problems.
I found learning more about my conditions enabled me to not only understand them better but helped me advocate for my needs and received better medical treatment as a result.

Stefania Principe is a respiratory physician from the University of Palermo, Italy and a PhD student at the Academic Medical Centre at the University of Amsterdam. Stefania’s research focuses on precision medicine in severe asthma, targeting the right treatment to the right patient.

Sven-Erik Dahlén (MD, PhD, Fellow of ERS and BPS) is professor of asthma and allergy research at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm and the Lung- and Allergy Clinic at Karolinska University Hospital. He is recognised for translational research on biological effects of eicosanoids (Leukotrienes, prostaglandins and related compounds) and the use of eicosanoid metabolites as biomarkers in asthma. He is leading international and national consortia for phenotyping of severe asthma (BIOAIR, U-BIOPRED, BIOCROSS, and the asthma part of 3TR). He has much experience with both preclinical research and clinical trials for the development of new treatments for asthma.