![]() ![]() ![]() Laura Byrne has played on numerous recordings including “Arts over Aids” by Aaron Jay Kernis with members of the St. Laura also freelances extensively and performs with touring groups and popular entertainers such as Johnny Mathis, The Moody Blues, The Irish Tenors and Bernadette Peters. Laura Byrne can be heard performing at UNC and at Duke as well as on stages at some of the most popular venues in the area including DPAC, The Carolina Theatre and Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts. She has performed for a variety of orchestras including the Joffrey Ballet, the Minnesota Orchestra, Minnesota Opera, Louisville Orchestra, NC Symphony, NC Ballet, NC Opera, NC Theatre, Master Chorale, Choral Society of Durham and the Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle. Laura Byrne performs throughout the area as a soloist, in chamber music with her faculty colleagues and as an orchestral harpist in professional orchestras. Laura Byrne has been the harp instructor at Duke University and UNC at Chapel Hill since 2005. Byrne served as faculty harpist at Gustavus Adolphus College, the Baptist Seminary (Louisville, Ky) and at the University of Louisville. ![]() ![]() The Awards are granted in open competition with all award applications being evaluated by an independent and international global review panel.Laura Smithburg Byrne (Lecturer) received her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music where she studied with renowned harpist Alice Chalifoux. She began her teaching career at CIM in the preparatory division while in graduate school and began teaching at the college level upon receiving her Master of Music degree. Mrs. Three times a year, three outstanding scientists from the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Asia-Pacific receive a LEO Foundation Award to support their promising research in skin health. “It is an honour to be recognised for this award among the talented pool of researchers across the Asia-Pacific region and to be afforded the opportunity to champion skin immunology research.”īased in Denmark, the LEO Foundation 's philanthropic awards and grants aim to support the best international research in skin diseases. “The LEO Foundation’s work to highlight young skin researchers will greatly support our teams’ pursuit to understand the role of memory T cells in the skin,” Professor Mackay said. Professor Mackay praised the support of the LEO Foundation for early- and mid-career researchers, like herself, and said she was honoured to receive the recognition. The prestigious honour, which was announced at the International Societies for Investigative Dermatology (ISID) in Japan earlier this week, aims to highlight outstanding young researchers and scientists from around the world whose work represents an extraordinary contribution to skin research. Professor Laura Mackay, Laboratory Head and Immunology Theme Leader at the Doherty Institute, and National Health and Media Research Council (NHMRC) Leadership Fellow at the University of Melbourne, has been awarded the LEO Foundation Award in Region Asia-Pacific for her contributions to our understanding of T cells and their relevance for immunology memory. ![]()
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