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3rd November, 2023
BREATH Success: UWS PhD student Carly Woods successfully defends thesis at viva

General News | UWS


Carly Woods successfully undertook her viva voce examination on the 30th October, defending a doctoral thesis entitled: Particulate Matter and Potential Health Impacts in a Remote Environment.

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10th 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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3rd 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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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, 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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13th October, 2022
BREATH Public Engagement at Girvan Academy

Kids | Outreach News | UWS


New PhD student Jennifer Loudon (funded by Cunningham Trust) and BREATH PI Dr Anne Crilly presenting the BREATH misssion to combat COPD at Girvan Academy.

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11th October, 2022
BREATH research publication helps in the design of new asthma and COPD drugs

DKIT | QUB | Research


Click on research links below: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-asthma-copd-drugs-side-effects.html https://www.newswise.com/articles/better-asthma-and-copd-drugs-with-fewer-side-effects-are-within-reach

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9th September, 2022
BREATH Success: UWS PhD student Kirsty McCallum successfully defends thesis at viva

General News | Research | UWS


Kirsty McCallum successfully undertook her viva voce examination on the 9th Sep, defending a doctoral thesis entitled: Pulmonary Ageing in COPD.

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4th August, 2022
BREATH Success: DkIT PhD student Ritu Dwivedi successfully defends thesis at viva

DKIT | General News


Ritu Dwivedi successfully defended her doctoral thesis at viva on 27th July.

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24th June, 2022
BREATH Success: UWS PhD student Mariarca Bailo successfully defends thesis at viva

General News | Research | UWS


Mariarca Bailo successfully undertook her viva voce examination on the 24th June

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22nd June, 2022
BREATH Affiliate: Laura Stewart

General News | Research | UWS


Statitician Laura Stewart (UWS) is now appointed as BREATH Affiliate

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21st June, 2022
BREATH Success: UWS PhD student Kimberly Black successfully defends thesis at viva

General News | Research | UWS


Kimberly Black successfully undertook her viva voce examination on the 20th June

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1st June, 2022
BREATH Success: UWS PhD student Bryn Short successfully defends thesis at viva

General News | Research | UWS


Bryn Short undertook his viva voce examination on the 31st May, defending a doctoral thesis entitled: Defining and modelling the microbiome in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

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31st May, 2022
BREATH Success: QUB PhD student Stephen Carson successfully defends thesis at viva

General News | QUB | Research


Stephen Carson undertook his viva voce examination on the 25th May, defending a doctoral thesis entitled: An Investigation of the Response of Airway Epithelial Cells to Pathogens Associated with Acute Exacerbations of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (AECOPD).

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30th March, 2022
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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10th February, 2022
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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3rd February, 2022
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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27th January, 2022
BREATH Success: DkIT student Leanna Morgan successfully defends thesis at viva

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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21st December, 2021
BREATH Success: DkIT student Kaneez Rabab successfully defends thesis at viva

DKIT | General News


DkIT PhD student Kaneez Rabab undertook her viva voce examination on December 16th

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10th December, 2021
Catherine Fulton receives STAR award from Welcome-Wolfson Institute

General News | QUB | Research


Catherine Fulton receives a STAR award from the Wellcome-Wolfson Institute of Experimental Medicine, Queen’s University Belfast

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8th December, 2021
BREATH Research Staff Shortlisted for Vice-Chancellor’s Prize

General News | QUB


Dr James Reihill (Senior Research Fellow, QUB) has been shortlisted for the 2021 Vice-Chancellor’s Research Prize.

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6th December, 2021
BREATH Success: QUB PhD Student Orla Dunne successfully defends thesis

General News | QUB | Research


QUB PhD student Orla Dunne successfully defended her doctoral thesis on December 1st.

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25th November, 2021
BREATH Success: QUB PhD student successfully defends thesis at viva

General News | QUB


QUB PhD student Nicola Roe successfully defends her thesis (November 24th)

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19th November, 2021
BREATH highlighted in Scottish Parliament debate to mark WORLD COPD DAY

General News | Outreach News | UWS


The BREATH mission to combat COPD was highlighted in the Scottish Parliament debate to mark WORLD COPD DAY

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19th November, 2021
BREATH Success: DkIT PhD student successfully defends thesis at viva

DKIT | General News


DkIT PhD student Tuleen Alkawadri successfully defends her doctoral thesis at viva.

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15th November, 2021
BREATH Success: First of the PhD students successfully defends thesis at viva

DKIT | General News | Research


DkIT PhD student Ruth Matthews undertook her viva voce examination on October 15th

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11th October, 2021
Postgraduate Hatton Prize: Orla Dunne

General News | QUB | Research


BREATH PhD student Orla Dunne won the postgraduate Hatton competition for her presentation describing the role of TRP channels and P2X receptors in dental pain.

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22nd September, 2021
‘Fantastic’ work of BREATH acknowledged on floor of Scottish Parliament

General News


The ‘fantastic’ BREATH work in the SW Scotland recognised by Finlay Carson MSP in First Minister’s Question time in Scottish Parliament yesterday

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20th July, 2021
Almac Discovery links with BREATH to Expand Disease Focus into Respiratory Disease

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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6th July, 2021
BREATH Annual Conference 2021 (Virtual) – hosted by DkIT

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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24th May, 2021
Almac joins BREATH investigating roles for deubiquitinating enzymes in airway disease

General News


In 2020, Almac Discovery partnered with the BREATH consortium to focus on identifying roles for DUBs in airway disease using a CRISPR-based screening approach.

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12th May, 2021
QUB PhD Student Stephen Carson Interview Televised on Croi Uladh le John Toal series

Adults | General News | Outreach News


In August 2020, QUB PhD Student Stephen Carson had the opportunity to be interviewed for the BBC Northern Ireland TV series, ‘Croí Uladh le John Toal’

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22nd April, 2021
Moffat Academy (P7) awarded BREATH Certificate of Excellence

General News | Kids | Outreach News | UWS


Primary 7 at Moffat Academy has been been the first school since pandemic lockdown began, to achieve the BREATH Excellence award for their successful completion of a set challenge linked with an important lung health programme rolling out across South West Scotland, Ireland and Northern Ireland.

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8th February, 2021
International Cough Symposium: Best Abstract Award

General News


The Eleventh International Cough Symposium was held as a virtual event on the 21st and 22nd of January 2021. Best Abstract award to Orla Dunne.

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17th December, 2020
BREATH Awarded 2020 Vice-Chancellor’s Prize for Excellence in Research Culture

General News | QUB | Research


BREATH has been awarded the 2020 Queen’s University Belfast Vice-Chancellor’s Prize for Excellence in Research Culture.

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7th December, 2020
Sunday Post article on BREATH

Adults | General News | Kids | Outreach News


The BREATH programme featured as a full page article in the Sunday Post.

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24th November, 2020
BREATH engagement with schools continues during pandemic

General News | Kids | Outreach News | UWS


The recent ‘virtual’ visit by students Mark Thomas and Kimberly Black to Girvan Academy featured in the winter edition of the Ayrshire Chamber Magazine.

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30th September, 2020
BREATH Presented at Scottish Parliament CPG on Lung Health

General News | Outreach News


Professor John Lockhart and Clinical BREATH Affiliate Phyllis Murphie presented BREATH at the Scottish Parliament’s Cross Party Group on Lung Health 21st September.

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1st July, 2020
Covid Pneumonia Seminars

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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11th June, 2020
BREATH Annual Conference 2020 (Virtual) – hosted by UWS

Outreach News | Research


The 2020 BREATH Annual Conference was hosted this year by UWS

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13th May, 2020
Stephen Carson presents COPD programme in Irish Gaelic on Meon Eile

Outreach News | QUB


Stephen Carson (QUB PhD student) gives excellent presentation of the BREATH COPD programme in Irish (Gaelic) on Meon Eile.

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25th March, 2020
BREATH Challenge (Home School Exercises/Certificate)

Kids | Outreach News


Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is serious progressive lung disease, and is prevalent in Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland. People with COPD are in the high risk category for the coronavirus. The central mission of the BREATH Team is combating COPD through research and public awareness.

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25th March, 2020
Coronavirus Impact

General News


BREATH community across 3 countries are now progressing operations from home. All clinical sampling currently suspended, as our BREATH clinical colleagues prioritise to coronavirus challenge.

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11th March, 2020
ERS LSC 2020 in Estoril, Portugal: Kirsty McCallum

General News


The 18th Lung Science Conference held by the European Respiratory Society took place in Estoril, Portugal from the 5-8th March. The meeting took place across four days which included scientific presentations of outstanding quality. The theme of the conference this year was “Metabolic alterations in Lung Ageing and Disease”.

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28th February, 2020
Retired journalist gives valuable insight into his life with COPD

Adults | General News | Outreach News


A sufferer talks about how COPD has affected his life, the concerns about lack of a cure and the degeneration process, the positive help being provided by the NHS, the importance of self-help to ease the strain of day-to-day living and trying to turn a negative into a positive.

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21st February, 2020
INTERREG EU Commission visit QUB Partner Facilities

General News


Delighted to received visit from Marianne van de Vorle, Programme Officer and Paschal Boijmans, Head of Unit for INTERREG EU Commission, and to present them an overview of our successful INTERREG-funded 7.7M Euro BREATH project.  A valuable meeting – the visit was much appreciated.  

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13th February, 2020
Belmont Primary first to be awarded BREATH Certificate of Excellence

Kids | Outreach News


Belmont Primary school in Stranraer has achieved the BREATH Certificate of Excellence for their successful completion of a set challenge linked with an important lung health programme rolling out across South West Scotland, Ireland and Northern Ireland.

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20th December, 2019
Feedback Letters from Primary Pupils

General News | Kids | Outreach News | UWS


The impact of the BREATH schools’ enagement programme, to increase awarenss of COPD, is best reflected in the words and pictures from the pupils themselves.

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16th December, 2019
COPD patient joins BREATH schools’ public awareness campaign

Adults | General News | Kids | Outreach News


Mr Charters very kindly joined the BREATH schools engagement programme, by being interviewed at an assembly on COPD in Kirkcudbright Academy.

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29th November, 2019
‘Award Winning’ BREATH Staff, Students & Pupils

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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29th November, 2019
BREATH PhD Oral Presentation Award at ITS

General News


UWS PhD student Kimberly Black receives Irish Thoracic Society runner up prize for best oral presentation

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28th November, 2019
BREATH Highlighted by Emma Harper MSP in Scottish Parliament Debate 2019

General News


BREATH Programme again highlighted by Emma Harper MSP in debate on the floor of Scottish Parliament

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28th November, 2019
BREATH Present en masse at Irish Thoracic Society Galway Meeting 2019

General News


BREATH PhDs evidence the success of their doctoral training to date by an impressive breadth of scientific presentations on COPD at Irish Thoracic Society Annual Meeting, Galway. PhD student Kimberly Black does BREATH and UWS proud by delivering an excellent oral presentation on PAR2 and airway smooth muscle at the Galway Irish Thoracic Society meeting […]

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21st November, 2019
Presentation Success!

General News


Congratulations to Orla Dunne who one first prize for her oral presentation at the School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Annual Postgraduate Forum at Queen’s University Belfast on 7th November 2019.  

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20th November, 2019
World COPD Day 2019

General News | Outreach News


World COPD Day is organized by the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) in collaboration with health care professionals and COPD patient groups throughout the world.

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13th November, 2019
SEUPB Case Study on BREATH

General News


Link below is to the SEUPB case studies – including BREATH: BREATH Case Study

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6th November, 2019
REMERGE Presentations

General News


Congratulations to BREATH (INTERREG VA programme, SEUPB) PhD students Orla Dunne and Nicola Roe who were highly commended for their poster presentations, judged by visiting external speakers at the REMERGE symposium at Queen’s University Belfast (14th Oct 2019). REMERGE is a multidisciplinary team of academic and clinical researchers, with a focus on using regenerative medicine […]

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11th October, 2019
BREATH attend ERS Congress Madrid

General News


BREATH team, Professor John Lockhart, Dr Gary Litherland, Dr Anne Crilly, Dr Joanna Brzeszczynska and Lynette Dunning, attended at the European Respiratory Society (ERS) International Congress 2019 in Madrid.

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12th September, 2019
BREATH present at International Kv7 Channels Symposium

DKIT | Research


BREATH team from DkIT present at the International Kv7 Channels Symposium in Milan, Italy.

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11th September, 2019
Interreg VA Exhibition Edinburgh

General News | Outreach News


BREATH programme presented at the Interreg VA exhibition in the Dynamic Earth Conference Centre, Edinburgh.

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2nd September, 2019
Dundalk Professors Three

DKIT | General News | Research


Congratulations to BREATH partners from the Dundalk Institute of Technology Smooth Muscle Research Centre, who have all just been made professors.

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20th July, 2019
BREATH team present at FASEB 2019

DKIT | General News | Research


The BREATH team of PIs, postdocs and PhDs from DkIT present in sunny Florida at the FASEB Smooth Muscle USA.

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19th June, 2019
Pharmaceutical Industry jumps into Action at Queen’s University Belfast

General News | Research


BREATH and the School of Pharmacy with TEVA UK hosted a one-day interactive training session entitled “Pharmaceutical Industry in Action”, focused on enhancing understanding of how the pharmaceutical industry operates.

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8th June, 2019
BREATH presents at American Cough Conference

General News | QUB | Research


BREATH staff and students have enjoy successful trip to the American Cough Conference, Washington DC.

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9th April, 2019
BREATH presents at Experimental Biology Meeting

General News | QUB | Research


BREATH team present ressearch at Experimental Biology Meeting in Orlando, Florida.

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2nd April, 2019
BREATH research team features in @SEUPB EU Magazines

General News


BREATH team feature in: https://seupb.eu/media/your-eu-magazines

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15th March, 2019
BREATH PhD Team Visit GlaxoSmithKline

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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26th November, 2018
Impressive Impact of BREATH at Irish Thoracic Society Annual Scientific Meeting 2018(Belfast)

General News | Research


BREATH (Border and REgions Airways Training Hub) is a €7.75 M collaborative cross-border project focussed on increasing research capacity in the area of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and currently supports 16 4-year PhD students and 8 PDRAs across 3 institutions: Queen’s University Belfast; Dundalk Institute of Technology and the University of the West of […]

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15th November, 2018
BREATH highlighted in Scottish Parliament

General News | Outreach News


BREATH highlighted by Ross Greer MSP in Scottish Parliament

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15th November, 2018
DkIT-led COPD Research Project Received NI Healthcare Award 2018

DKIT | General News | QUB | Research | UWS


The BREATH (Border and Regions Airways Training Hub) project, which is a cross-border partnership between Dundalk Institute of Technology, Queen’s University Belfast and the University of the West of Scotland, has been shortlisted for a Northern Ireland Healthcare Award.

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5th October, 2018
BREATH Concerted Public Engagement Drive in Dumfries & Galloway

Adults | General News | Kids | Outreach News


An important part of the BREATH Public Engagement mission is outreach to schools within the Partner regions.

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23rd August, 2018
BREATH Ayrshire Stakeholder Event

General News | Outreach News | Research


Breath COPD Research hosted an event bringing together over 50 healthcare workers, scientists, businesses and policy makers to discuss Scotland’s progress towards the deadly lung disease, COPD.

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11th June, 2018
BREATH PhDs on CHSS charity abseil

General News | Outreach News


BREATH PhDs on CHSS charity abseil

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2nd May, 2018
BREATH presented to Michel Barnier

General News


BREATH programme is presented to Michel Barnier and Irish Government Ministers.

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18th April, 2018
Patent Award

General News | Research


Mark Hollwood received Patent Award on behalf of the Smooth Muscle Team.

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7th March, 2018
BREATH presents to Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh

Research


Dr Iain McLellan presents BREATH to Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh.

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21st November, 2017
DkIT researchers take centre stage at European Parliament to showcase cross-border investigations into COPD

General News | Outreach News | Research


01 December, 2017. Dundalk, Ireland.  Dr Keith Thornbury from the Smooth Muscle Research Centre in Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT), was invited to attend an exhibition and reception in the European Parliament, along with Professor Lorraine Martin from Queen’s University of Belfast (QUB) and Professor John Lockhart from the University of the West of Scotland […]

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16th November, 2017
Emma Harper MSP identifies BREATH in Scottish Parliament Debate

General News


BREATH programme was identified in the Debate on COPD in Scottish Parliament

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15th November, 2017
Urgent Call to Tackle Killer Disease on World COPD Day

General News | Outreach News


15 November 2017. Dundalk, Ireland. Over one hundred patients, healthcare workers and politicians across the UK and Ireland have come together on World Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) day (Wednesday 15 November) to launch an integrated project to tackle the killer disease which takes over 600,000 lives in the EU every year. €7.7m has been […]

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12th September, 2017
BREATH partners together at first international conference

DKIT | General News | QUB | Research | UWS


BREATH PIs attended their first international conference as a team – European Respiratory Society meeting, Milan, Italy.

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30th August, 2017
BREATH Dumfries & Galloway Stakeholder Event

General News | Outreach News | QUB | UWS


BREATH hosted an evening event to bring together over 30 healthcare workers, scientists, businesses and policy makers to discuss South West Scotland’s progress towards the deadly lung disease, COPD.

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