Lung regeneration

Mini-organs offer insights into congenital conditions

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Scientists have succeeded in cultivating stem cells from late-stage pregnancy into mini-organs. 

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Asthma prevention

How tricks from nature inspire asthma research

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Erika von Mutius is one of the key players in AWWA, the international collaboration united in the mission to prevent asthma in children since 2017.

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Lung regeneration

Research on Lung Damage Repair

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Antonella 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.

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Károly Illy appointed as new director of Lung Foundation Netherlands (Longfonds)

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The 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.

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Lung regeneration

‘Chances are a surge of knowledge is coming’

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For 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.

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Lung regeneration

A shortcut to reliable repair and growth of airway cells

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Leading 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.

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Michael Rutgers announces departure from Lung Foundation Netherlands (Longfonds Nederland)

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Michael 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.

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Lung regeneration

'We are working together towards one goal: to eliminate COPD'

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Jos 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.

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Asthma prevention

Vici grant for the prevention of severe respiratory infections

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Hermelijn 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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Lung regeneration

Meeting Lung regeneration Consortium

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Early January, Longfonds and the Lung regeneration Consortium (BREATH) met in person for the first time since the Covid pandemic. The meeting was organized at- and hosted by- prof.dr. Ed Morrissey and his lab at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.

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