The Irish Thoracic Society is currently processing applications for the 2008/2009 Irish Thoracic Society/Boehringer Ingelheim Research Fellowship.

The 2007/2008 Research Fellow is Dr Surendran Thavagnanam, Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children. Dr Thavagnanam’s research project is entitled:

Effects of IL-13 on normal and asthmatic paediatric bronchial and nasal epithelial cells: IL-13 as a potential therapeutic target in childhood asthma.

Pictured below are Professor Mike Shields (centre), Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children accepting the Irish Thoracic Society – Boehringer Ingelheim Research Fellowship on behalf of Dr Surendran
Thavagnanan from Dr JJ Gilmartin, President, the Irish Thoracic Society and Dr Colin Edwards, Head of Medical Affairs and Clinical Research, Boehringer Ingelheim Ireland.