News & Events

Healthy Ireland is a new government framework for action aiming to improve the health and wellbeing of people living in Ireland over the coming generation. We at the Alpha One Foundation are particularly interested in the area of lung disease, in terms of prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. 

The 4th International Patient Congress on Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency is being held in Barcelona on the weekend of April 12th - 13th, 2013.

We are delighted to have a delegation of Irish Alphas and their families attending the conference and proceedings can be watched live here.

The Committee on Health and Children discussed measures to improve lung health awareness and increase lung health promotion efforts when it met with representatives from the Irish Lung Health Alliance on Thursday, 7th February 2013. The Alpha One Foundation was one of six health charities that presented on the day. The Oireachtas Health Committee consists of TDs and Senators from all the political parties. 

Dear Friends of Alpha-1,

In April 1963, Swedish researchers Carl-Bertil Laurell and Sten Eriksson published their landmark research on the discovery of Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the discovery, the Fourth International Alpha-1 Patient Congress and an international Research Conference on Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency will be held in Barcelona, Spain, April 11th - 13th, 2013.