Updates

  • Asthma prevention

    Professor Pieter Hiemstra appointed professor emeritus

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    A remarkable chapter closes: Professor Pieter Hiemstra retires after decades of groundbreaking lung research and tireless dedication to Longfonds.

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  • Asthma prevention

    Symposium AWWA: 'We have an enormous harvest now'

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    With a great sense of fulfillment, we look back on an inspiring symposium held in March. To mark six years of AWWA, researchers from around the world gathered in Leiden, to share the latest insights with one another.

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  • Lung regeneration

    How the mini-lung aids research

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    Transplanting a mini-lung into the body of someone with COPD? That’s not quite how we should imagine it. But what does it actually mean? We asked prof.dr. Reinoud Gosens, a pharmacologist at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands.

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  • Asthma prevention

    Symposium on the prevention of asthma and allergies

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    On March 10 & 11, 2025, Longfonds and the Leiden University Medical Center will host the Symposium on the Prevention of Asthma and Allergies at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden.

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