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Meiners S, Reynaert NL, Matthaiou AM, Rajesh R, Ahmed E, Guillamat-Prats R, Heijink IH, Cuevas-Ocaña S. The importance of translational science within the respiratory field. Breathe (Sheff) 2024; 20:230183. [PMID: 38746906 PMCID: PMC11091714 DOI: 10.1183/20734735.0183-2023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2023] [Accepted: 02/07/2024] [Indexed: 01/06/2025] Open
Abstract
The Translational Science Working Group at the European Respiratory Society (ERS) aims to bridge the gap between basic and clinical science by providing a platform where scientists, clinicians and experts in the respiratory field can actively shape translational research. For the 2023 Congress, dedicated translational science sessions were created and sessions of interest to many assemblies from the clinical and the scientific point of view were tagged as translational sessions, attracting clinical and scientific experts to the same room to discuss relevant topics and strengthening translational efforts among all ERS assemblies.
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Affiliation(s)
- Silke Meiners
- Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Lung Center, Airway Research Center North (ARCN), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Borstel, Germany
- Institute of Experimental Medicine, Christian-Albrechts University Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine and School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Pneumonology, Medical School, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
- Respiratory Physiology Laboratory, Medical School, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
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- Otto Loewi Research Center for Vascular Biology, Immunology and Inflammation, Division of Pharmacology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Department of Respiratory Diseases, Univ Montpellier, CHU Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- PhyMedExp, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, INSERM, CHU Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- Laboratory of Immunoregulation and Mucosal Immunology, VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research, Ghent, Belgium
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- Lung Immunity Translational Research Group in Respiratory Diseases, Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP), Badalona, Spain
- Institute for Cardiovascular Prevention (IPEK), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich, Munich, Germany
- German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Munich Heart Alliance (MHA), Munich, Germany
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Departments of Pathology & Medical Biology and Pulmonary Diseases, Groningen Institute for Asthma and COPD (GRIAC), Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Biodiscovery Institute, Translational Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
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Vijverberg SJ, Kampouras A, Nayir Büyükşahin H, Makrinioti H, Petrarca L, Schmidt M, Schreck LD, Urbantat RM, Beydon N, Goutaki M, Lavizzari A, Proesmans M, Schramm D, Stahl M, Zacharasiewicz A, Moeller A, Pijnenburg MW. ERS International Congress 2023: highlights from the Paediatrics Assembly. ERJ Open Res 2024; 10:00853-2023. [PMID: 38410713 PMCID: PMC10895434 DOI: 10.1183/23120541.00853-2023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2023] [Accepted: 11/07/2023] [Indexed: 02/28/2024] Open
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Respiratory health in children is essential for general wellbeing and healthy development in the short and long term. It is well known that many respiratory diseases in adulthood have their origins in early life, and therefore research on prevention of respiratory diseases and management of children with respiratory diseases will benefit patients during the full life course. Scientific and clinical advances in the field of respiratory health are moving at a fast pace. This article summarises some of the highlights in paediatric respiratory medicine presented at the hybrid European Respiratory Society (ERS) International Congress 2023 which took place in Milan (Italy). Selected sessions are summarised by Early Career Members of the Paediatrics Assembly (Assembly 7) under the supervision of senior ERS officers, and cover a wide range of research areas in children, including respiratory physiology and sleep, asthma and allergy, cystic fibrosis, respiratory infection and immunology, neonatology and intensive care, respiratory epidemiology and bronchology.
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- Susanne J.H. Vijverberg
- Pulmonary Medicine, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Pediatric Pulmonology, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Paediatric Pulmonology Department, 424 General Military Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Division of Pulmonology, Department of Paediatrics, Mardin Training and Research Hospital, Mardin, Turkey
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Translational and Precision Medicine Department, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Rome, Italy
- Maternal Infantile and Urological Sciences Department, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Pediatrics, Teaching Hospital of the University of Vienna, Wilhelminen Hospital, Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Graduate School for Health Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Pediatric Respiratory Medicine, Immunology and Critical Care Medicine and Cystic Fibrosis Center, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- German Center for Lung Research (DZL), associated partner site, Berlin, Germany
- Berlin Institute of Health at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Unité Fonctionnelle de Physiologie – Explorations Fonctionnelles Respiratoires et du Sommeil, Hôpital Armand Trousseau, Paris, France
- INSERM, U 938, Centre de Recherche Saint Antoine, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Paris, France
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- Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Division of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine and Allergology, Department of Paediatrics, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
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- Division of Woman and Child, Department of Pediatrics, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of General Pediatrics, Neonatology and Pediatric Cardiology, Medical Faculty, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Department of Pediatric Respiratory Medicine, Immunology and Critical Care Medicine and Cystic Fibrosis Center, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- German Center for Lung Research (DZL), associated partner site, Berlin, Germany
- Berlin Institute of Health at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Pediatrics, Teaching Hospital of the University of Vienna, Wilhelminen Hospital, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Paediatric Pulmonology, University Children's Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Paediatrics, Division of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine and Allergology, Erasmus MC – Sophia Children's Hospital, University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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