Author names: Anand Kumar ANDIAPPAN1 PhD, Kia Joo PUAN1 PhD, Yang Yie SIO2 PhD, Fauziah ALLY1, Bernett LEE1 PhD, Sri Anusha MATTA2 PhD, Nurhashikin YUSOF1, Anis LARBI1 PhD, De Yun WANG3 MD PhD, Fook Tim CHEW2* PhD, Olaf ROTZSCHKE1,* PhDAffiliations: 1 Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), #04-06, 8A Biomedical Grove, Singapore.
2 Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore
3Department of Otolaryngology, National University of Singapore, Singapore
*Correspondence : Olaf ROTZSCHKE : Olaf_Rotzschke@immunol.a-star.edu.sg; or Fook Tim CHEW : dbscft@nus.edu.sg
Acknowledgements: The authors would like to thank the volunteers for participating in this study, Dr. Ramani Anantharaman and Parate Pallavi Nilkanth for help with sample collection.
Funding: Olaf ROTZSCHKE and Fook Tim CHEW have received research support from the Singapore Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund, Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), National Medical Research Council (NMRC) (Singapore), Biomedical Research Council (BMRC) (Singapore), and the Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR) (Singapore); Grant Numbers: N-154-000-038-001, R-154-000-191-112, R-154-000-404-112, R-154-000-553-112, R-154-000-565-112, R-154-000-630-112, R-154-000-A08-592, R-154-000-A27-597, R-154-000-A91-592, R-154-000-A95-592, R-154-000-B99-114, BMRC/01/1/21/18/077, BMRC/04/1/21/19/315, BMRC/APG2013/108, SIgN-06-006, SIgN-08-020, NMRC/1150/2008, and H17/01/a0/008. Fook Tim CHEW has received consulting fees from Sime Darby Technology Centre; First Resources Ltd; Genting Plantation, and Olam International, outside the submitted work. Data generated by the SIgN Immunomonitoring platform was supported by a BMRC IAF 311006 grant and BMRC transition funds #H16/99/b0/011. Dr. Anand Kumar Andiappan was supported by NMRC YIRG grant “OFYIRG17nov065” and A*STAR CDA (Career Development Award) grant (202D800012) and fellowships from the EAACI (European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology) and ERS (European Respiratory Society). Y.Y.S. has received research support from the NUS Resilience & Growth Postdoctoral Fellowships with grant number: R-141-000-036-281. All funding agencies had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.