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Project Vision
BREATH (Border and REgions Airways Training Hub) is an ambitious, collaborative research Partnership that will harness complementary resources & expertise of 10 Principal Investigators from DkIT, QUB & UWS with a mission to tackle Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), an incurable lung disease, highly prevalent in the border regions of Ireland & Western Scotland.
€7.7 million has been offered under the European Union’s INTERREG VA Programme for a pioneering cross-border research project, designed to better understand and alleviate the impact of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Queen’s University Belfast
Involved in the Epithelium and Clinical Management of the Breath Project
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BREATH DISSEMINATION EVENT – Dundalk (Ballymascanlon House)
Adults DKIT General News Kids Outreach News QUB Research UWS
Success of BREATH across all fronts presented at the main Dissemination event in Dundalk on the 30th Mar, 2022.
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BREATH Success: QUB student Gillian Kelly-Robinson successfully defends thesis at viva
General News QUB
QUB PhD student Gillian Kelly-Robinson successfully defended her viva doctoral thesis entitled ‘Proteases, Antiproteases and Other Inflammatory Mediators Associated with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)’ on January 26th
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BREATH Success: QUB student Emma Carroll successfully defends thesis at viva
General News QUB
QUB PhD student Emma Carroll undertook her viva voce examination defending a doctoral thesis entitled: The Development of Novel Strategies to Modulate Epithelial Sodium Channel (ENaC) Activity in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)”.
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