The award of Best Oral Presentation at the Irish Thoracic Society Annual Scientific Meeting went to Dr Sinead McKeon, Trinity College Dublin – The Role of Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor (MIF) in Lung Cancer.
The award of Best Oral Presentation, runner up prize went to Dr Michelle White, RCSI Beaumont Hospital – Ivacaftor therapy reduces the inflammatory burden in patients with Cystic Fibrosis by indirectly modulating ADAM-17 activity.
Pictured at the ITS:
Receiving the runner up award for ‘Best Poster Presentation’ is Professor Paul McLoughlin, UCD on behalf of Dr Siobhan Devlin for her poster titled Pulmonary Epithelial Cells are a Source of Gremlin1 in the Lung, presented by Mr Patrick Buckley Boehringer Ingelheim Ireland
Receiving the award for ‘Best Poster Presentation’ is Dr Mary O’Sullivan, Trinity College Dublin on behalf of Dr Denise Triglia for her poster titled Manipulation of Metabolism Improves Migration of Human Primary Myeloid Dendritic Cells Infected with BCG, presented by Mr Patrick Buckley Boehringer Ingelheim Ireland
Receiving first prize in the ANAIL Awards for Best Presentation by a Respiratory Clinical Nurse Specialist at the Irish Thoracic Society Annual Scientific Meeting is Ms Nikki Byrne, Galway University Hospital, presented by Ms Donna Langan, ANAIL
Receiving joint-second prize in the ANAIL Awards for Best Presentation by a Respiratory Clinical Nurse Specialist at the Irish Thoracic Society Annual Scientific Meeting is Ms Clare Sheridan, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital Dublin, presented by Ms Donna Langan, ANAIL
Receiving joint-second, and third prize in the ANAIL Awards for Best Presentation by a Respiratory Clinical Nurse Specialist at the Irish Thoracic Society Annual Scientific Meeting is Ms Bettina Korn, St James’s Hospital Dublin, presented by Ms Donna Langan, ANAIL
Asthma Bursary formal presentation – Pictured at the presentation of the Asthma Society of Ireland Irish Thoracic Society Research Bursary, kindly supported by Novartis are: Mr Shane O’Sullivan, Novartis, Dr Lindsey Madden, representing Prof Anthony O’Regan, Galway University Hospitals and Prof Richard Costello, representing the Asthma Society of Ireland
