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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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BREATH programme features in Sunday Independent (Europe Day Supplement):

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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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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Success of BREATH across all fronts presented at the main Dissemination event in Dundalk on the 30th Mar, 2022.

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

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)”.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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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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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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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.

Outreach News | Research

The 2020 BREATH Annual Conference was hosted this year by UWS

Outreach News | QUB

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

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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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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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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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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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.  

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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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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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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The BREATH Trophy Cabinet is already filling with BREATH staff and student nominations/awards, speaking to early programme success.

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

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

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

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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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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.

DKIT | Research

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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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BREATH highlighted by Ross Greer MSP in Scottish Parliament

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

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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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BREATH PhDs on CHSS charity abseil

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

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

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

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

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

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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.