It is with great sadness that we share with you the news that our friend and collaborator, John W Walsh has passed away. John was a tireless advocate for better patient care and research in Alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency, COPD and bronchiectasis and played a key role in establishing the European Bronchiectasis Registry. We owe John a tremendous debt and he will be greatly missed. 

You can read more about John's extraordinary work here:

https://www.copdfoundation.org/About-Us/Who-We-Are/About-the-Founder.aspx

https://www.copdfoundation.org/About-Us/Press-Room/Press-Releases.aspx

EMBARC is committed to seeing through to completion John's vision of a truly global research effort to ultimately cure bronchiectasis.