Lung regeneration

New tools like PCLS accelerate the search for COPD solutions

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Prof.dr.

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Asthma prevention

How worms inspire the prevention and new treatments of asthma

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Dr. Henry McSorley of the University of Dundee (Scotland) tries to use the trick of parasitic worms to find solutions for asthma.

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Lung regeneration

Newly discovered stem cell brings COPD-research big step forward

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Prof.dr. Ed Morrisey (University of Pennsylvania, VS) found a new stem cell in human lungs. 'It has a critical role in maintaining the alveoli and is altered in lung disease.

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Asthma prevention

Epithelial cells play an essential role in asthma research

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Epithelial cells line the inside of the airways and alveoli. They play an important role in asthma. Prof.dr. Pieter Hiemstra of the Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC) is an internationally renowned expert in culturing human epithelial cells.

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Asthma prevention

Analysing cow's milk and big data to prevent asthma

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Unprocessed cow's milk appears to prevent asthma in children. Step by step prof.dr. Ben Marsland uncovers how this works.

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Asthma prevention

‘My ultimate dream? Preventing asthma in children’

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Hermelijn Smits hopes that we will find ways to prevent. Her focus is on a treatment to protect children from developing asthma.

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Lung regeneration

'Now is when the really great stuff can happen'

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The Lung Regeneration Consortium enters a new phase. Prof.dr. Carla Kim looks back and explains why she is excited about the near future research.

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Lung regeneration

Drug to repair pulmonary alveoli

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Professor Reinoud Gosens and his team are trying to answer the question: why don’t the alveoli of COPD patients recover?

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Asthma prevention

Hermelijn Smits professor at Leiden University

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Lung Foundation Netherlands (Longfonds) is happy to announce the recent appointment of Hermelijn Smits as full professor at Leiden University.

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Lung regeneration

New role prof.dr. Hans Clevers

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Prof.dr. Hans Clevers, one of the two figureheads within the international Longfonds research programme into lung tissue repair, will become the head of Pharma Research and Early Development at Roche.

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