COPD funding awarded

  Three leading experts in respiratory medicine have been awarded funding to help patients suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), bronchiectasis, and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). These are incurable lung conditions identified as having a lack of effective treatments to halt disease progression, despite their heavy burden on patients.  The charity awarded the BLF Chair in Respiratory Research grant to Professor Toby Maher, Imperial College London, and the GSK/BLF Chair in Respiratory Research grant to Professor James Chalmers, University of Dundee, and Professor Louise Wain, University of Leicester. The aim is to discover processes in the diseases that may enable