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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).
Queen’s University Belfast
Involved in the Epithelium and Clinical Management of the Breath Project
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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.
Read ArticleBREATH feature in Sunday Independent (Supplement)
Adults DKIT General News Kids Outreach News QUB UWS
BREATH programme features in Sunday Independent (Europe Day Supplement):
Read ArticleBREATH 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.
Read ArticleKids Corner
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