Seven years of BREATH: the making of the mini-lung
/sites/default/files/styles/news_overview/public/2025-09/Foto%27s%20website%20longfonds.nl%201400x800%20%283%29.png?itok=5nBHQfmRWhat long seemed impossible has been achieved: researchers, led by Hans Clevers, created a mini-lung. This allows them to search more quickly for a solution to COPD. Researcher Antonella Dost has already discovered an interesting signal.
> Read moreLongfonds Symposium on Lung Regeneration
/sites/default/files/styles/news_overview/public/2025-09/Symposium%20Longregeneratie%201920x1080.png?itok=1wrmqy2zThe Symposium on Lung Regeneration, hosted by Longfonds, will take place at the Hubrecht Institute in Utrecht on Friday, December 12.
> 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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