Border & Regions

Airways Training Hub

The BREATH project signifies a strong cross-border partnership between the Smooth Muscle Research Centre (DkIT), the School of Pharmacy and School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences (QUB) and the Institute of Biomedical & Environmental Health Research (UWS).

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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).

Dundalk Institute of Technology

Involved in the Smooth Muscle of the Breath Project

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University of the West of Scotland

Involved in the Inflammation of the Breath Project

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Queen’s University Belfast

Involved in the Epithelium and Clinical Management of the Breath Project

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Ireland,
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10^th May, 2023

BREATH feature in Sunday Independent (Supplement)

Adults DKIT General News Kids Outreach News QUB UWS

BREATH programme features in Sunday Independent (Europe Day Supplement):

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3^rd May, 2023

BREATH Programme Collective Training Success

Adults Outreach News Research

Of the many successes emerging from our BREATH training hub, our 100% progression record of students and research staff into further employment, mainly in the science sector, and within our regions, has been our proudest.

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11^th April, 2023

BREATH Success: UWS PhD student Fawziye Tarhini successfully defends thesis at viva

General News UWS

Fawziye Tarhini undertook her viva voce examination on the 31st of March, successfully defending a doctoral thesis entitled: Regulation of Pro-inflammatory Responses in a Simple in vitro Model of Chronic Oxidant Response in COPD.

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