Professor. Keith Thornbury

2019-present Professor of Physiology, DkIT.

2016-present Director, The Smooth muscle Research Centre, DkIT.

2005-present Principal Investigator, Smooth Muscle Research Centre.

2005-2010 Honorary Reader, QUB.

1998-2005 Reader in Physiology, QUB.

2004 Visiting Scientist, Nagoya Japan.

1994-1998, Senior Lecturer in Physiology, QUB.

1983-1994, Lecturer in Physiology, QUB. 

1990 Visiting Scientist, University of Nevada, Reno.

1983  DHSS(NI) Research Fellow in Physiology.            

1982-1983 House Officer, The Ulster Hospital.

1.  BSc in Physiology with First Class Honours  (QUB), 1979.

2.  MB.,B.Ch.BAO 1982 (Medical degree, QUB).
3. PhD in Physiology awarded in 1987 (QUB). 

 

1980, Houston Medal in Microbiology.

1980, Richard Havelock Charles Award and Gold Medal.

1980, Third MB Foundation Scholarship.

1980, Emily Sarah Montgomery Travel Scholarship.

  

1990    International Research Fellowship, Fogarty Centre, National Institutes of Health (USA).

1999    Conway Review Lecture & Silver Medal, The Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland.

1983    Northern Ireland DHSS Research Fellowship.

1987    The JD Williamson prize for Research (QUB).

2004    Finnegan Scholarship, Queen’s University of Belfast.

Prof Keith Thornbury is the Director of the Smooth Muscle Research Centre at Dundalk Institute of Technology and is the Lead on the BREATH project.

Prof Thornbury’s research focuses on fundamental mechanisms that are relevant to clinical conditions such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), overactive bladder and erectile dysfunction. Malfunction of smooth muscle contractions play a critical part in each of these disorders.   The Smooth Muscle Research Centre includes experts in ion channel physiology, medicinal chemistry, pharmacology, live cell imaging and biotechnology. They work together as a team with the common purpose of identifying novel therapeutic targets for treating diseases involving abnormal smooth muscle contractions.