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.
General News
To provide industry-focused training, 17 PhD students fromBREATH were invited to the Brentford and Stevenage GSK sites for a 2day visit. They formed part of a larger BREATH team of 35 scientists from the Dundalk Institute of Technology, Queen’s University Belfast and the University of the West of Scotland.
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General News Outreach News
Given the potential impact on COPD patients, Respiratory Consultants as BREATH Clinical Affiliates are presenting a series of webinars on Covid Pneumonia starting July 17th 2020.
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DKIT General News
DkIT PhD student Leanna Morgan undertook her viva voce defending a doctoral thesis entitled: ‘Regulation of airway smooth muscle contraction by PGE2”
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