LASER Trial Blog

An information event was held on Saturday 19th July 2014 at Heartlands Hospital MIDRU building in Birmingham for patients interested in taking part in the LASER trial. The event was hosted by Dr. Adel Mansur and his asthma research team. The day was a great success. Dr. Mansur

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An information event is being held this weekend (Saturday 19th July 2014) at the MIDRU Building at the Heartlands Hospital in Birmingham. Anyone interested in finding out more about the trial is welcome to come along to the event at 12:30pm.

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All 5 initial recruiting centres are now open to recruitment. The Portsmouth team have randomised 15 patients for participation in the trial and screening has begun at other centres across the country. We look forward to the first patients being randomised outside Portsmouth. Keep up to date

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The LASER trial took a huge step forward today as the first participant was randomised for inclusion in the trial. Congratulations to the Research Team at the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth for achieving this national first! We look forward to including many more participants over the

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On Wednesday 21st May, the Respiratory Research team at Aintree University Hospital (http://www.aintreehospitals.nhs.uk) welcomed the LASER trial team to the Respiratory Research Department for a Site Initiation Visit (SIV.) The Site Initiation Visit is an important meeting required to prepare and set up a research site prior

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Wednesday 7th May 2014 will go down as a momentous date – the first patients nationally were screened for inclusion in the LASER trial at the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth. Many more patients are booked in for screening appointments over the next few weeks and we

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The website is now Live! Please let us know what you think of the website via our forum. Saturday 12th April saw the first of our LASER trial information events. The event was held at the Solent Hotel in Whiteley on a beautiful sunny Saturday morning. We were

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