New research consortium focuses on promising asthma medication
/sites/default/files/styles/news_overview/public/2024-05/BenMarsland_1400x800.png?itok=smbaWOuyThanks to the award of a Public Private Partnership subsidy, Longfonds can support the close collaboration between scientists and the newly launched start-up, Atopius Health.
> Read moreMini-organs offer insights into congenital conditions
/sites/default/files/styles/news_overview/public/2024-03/Longorganoide_accelerate_1400x800.png?itok=LAD79i6mScientists have succeeded in cultivating stem cells from late-stage pregnancy into mini-organs.
> Read moreHow tricks from nature inspire asthma research
/sites/default/files/styles/news_overview/public/2024-02/Erika%20Von%20Mutius%201400x800.png?itok=S2dHlKZBErika von Mutius is one of the key players in AWWA, the international collaboration united in the mission to prevent asthma in children since 2017.
> Read moreResearch on lung damage repair
/sites/default/files/styles/news_overview/public/2023-06/Nella%20Dost_0.jpg?itok=KEg3y0RKAntonella Dost, one of our stem cell researchers at the Hubrecht Institute in Utrecht, is working on promising ways to better understand and manipulate lung regeneration.
> Read moreKároly Illy appointed as new director of Lung Foundation Netherlands (Longfonds)
/sites/default/files/styles/news_overview/public/2023-06/K%C3%A1roly%20Illy_1.jpg?itok=YOR1IwLfThe Supervisory Board of Longfonds has announced that it has appointed Károly Illy as its new director. Illy is currently a paediatrician at Ziekenhuis Rivierenland Tiel and -until mid June ’23- chairman of the Dutch Paediatric Association.
> Read more‘Chances are a surge of knowledge is coming’
/sites/default/files/styles/news_overview/public/2023-04/Oliver%20Eickeberg.jpg?itok=wCnt1MCgFor treatments to arise, more basic knowledge is needed about COPD. To acquire this, top scientist Oliver Eickelberg put together a research team thatwas the first in the world to map the proteins in the lungs.
> Read moreA shortcut to reliable repair and growth of airway cells
/sites/default/files/styles/news_overview/public/2023-04/Sam%20Janes%20IG_0.jpg?itok=X2lUBtJPLeading respiratory scientist Professor Sam Janes developed a rapid method to identify the needles in a haystack of drugs that stimulate growth of airway stem cells.
> Read moreMichael Rutgers announces departure from Lung Foundation Netherlands (Longfonds Nederland)
/sites/default/files/styles/news_overview/public/2023-03/Michael%20Rutgers_0.jpg?itok=AUYm5RWkMichael Rutgers (65) will step down after the summer to make way for a successor. This was announced by the director of Lung Foundation Netherlands today.
> Read more'We are working together towards one goal: to eliminate COPD'
/sites/default/files/styles/news_overview/public/2023-03/overzicht.jpg?itok=R8cshzmyJos Pielage and Pieter van Eck consider their volunteering for the Patient Advisory Committee of the Longfonds research on lung tissue repair especially important. Especially for people with lung disease.
> Read moreVici grant for the prevention of severe respiratory infections
/sites/default/files/styles/news_overview/public/2023-02/Hermelijn%203_0.jpg?itok=a7gk-zywHermelijn Smits, professor of Immunomodulation through Host-Commensal Interactions, receives a Vici grant of 1.5 million euros. With this grant, she wants to use substances produced in the intestines to strengthen the immune system.
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