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A state-of-the-art Bronchoscopy facility and newly refurbished Respiratory Science laboratories are to be officially opened at The Glenfield Hospital by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leicester, Professor Sir Robert Burgess, on Wednesday 1st September at 12noon.
The Bronchoscopy Suite takes samples from the lungs of volunteers with asthma or Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), while they are undergoing tests for various conditions.
These samples will then be used in the world-renowned research carried out in the University of Leicester’s Respiratory Science laboratories.
Andrew Wardlaw, Professor of Allergy and Respiratory Medicine at the University of Leicester, commented: “This refurbishment and new bronchoscopy room is a tremendous boost for Respiratory Research in the East Midlands and we are very grateful to the Wolfson Foundation and the European Regional Development Fund for their support.
With the improvement in our facilities we have greatly increased our capacity for doing research on patients which we hope will lead to new and effective treatments for respiratory disease.”
The opening of the Bronchoscopy Suite and the Respiratory Science laboratories will take place during a one-day event when healthcare and medical experts gather at The Glenfield Hospital, Leicester for the inaugural meeting of the Respiratory Science Collaboration (RSC) – East Midlands.
The day’s activities, including a Special Interest Group Meeting organised by the Healthcare and Bioscience iNet together with the Universities of Leicester and Nottingham, will bring businesses with an interest in respiratory medicine together with academic and clinical experts in the field, and is part of the RSC initiative.
Both Professor Andrew Wardlaw and Professor Alan Knox, of the Division of Respiratory Medicine at the University of Nottingham will be speaking during the course of the day.
The RSC is part-financed by the European Regional Development Fund through East Midlands Development Agency, the Wolfson Foundation and the Universities of Leicester and Nottingham.
