Kimberly Black successfully undertook her viva voce examination on the 20th June, the final day of her COVID isolation, defending a doctoral thesis entitled: Elucidating the role of PAR2 in bronchial smooth muscle in COPD.
Her examiners included external, Dr Yvonne Dempsie from Glasgow Caledonian University and Dr John McLean (UWS).
Congratulations Dr Black – and well done to the supervisory team, led by Dr Gary Litherland and including Dr Andrew MacKenzie and Prof John Lockhart.
Outreach News Research
The annual BREATH conference took place virtually on Monday 21st – Wednesday 23rd of June and was hosted by DkIT. Like previous years, the conference consisted of BREATH PhD student presentations and presentations delivered by pharmaceutical industry representatives.
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General News
The BREATH Trophy Cabinet is already filling with BREATH staff and student nominations/awards, speaking to early programme success.
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QUB Research
Dr James Reihill joins Almac Discovery to further support the exploration of the role of Deubiquitinating enzymes (DUBs) in the development of new drugs for major respiratory diseases including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
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