11th 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, defending a doctoral thesis entitled: Regulation of Pro-inflammatory Responses in a Simple in vitro Model of Chronic Oxidant Response in COPD.

Her examiners included external, Dr Andrew Paul from University of Strathclyde, and internal, Dr Steven Kelly.

Congratulations Dr Tarhini – and well done to the supervisory team, led by Dr Gary Litherland.

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