The importance of translational science within the respiratory field

Silke Meiners; Niki L Reynaert; Andreas M Matthaiou; Rishi Rajesh; Engi Ahmed; Raquel Guillamat-Prats; Irene H Heijink; Sara Cuevas-Ocaña

doi:10.1183/20734735.0183-2023

The importance of translational science within the respiratory field

Breathe (Sheff). 2024 Mar;20(1):230183. doi: 10.1183/20734735.0183-2023. Epub 2024 May 14.

Authors

Silke Meiners^{1

2}, Niki L Reynaert³, Andreas M Matthaiou^{4

5}, Rishi Rajesh⁶, Engi Ahmed^{7

8

9}, Raquel Guillamat-Prats^{10

11

12}, Irene H Heijink¹³, Sara Cuevas-Ocaña¹⁴

Affiliations

¹ Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Lung Center, Airway Research Center North (ARCN), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Borstel, Germany.
² Institute of Experimental Medicine, Christian-Albrechts University Kiel, Kiel, Germany.
³ Department of Respiratory Medicine and School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
⁴ Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Pneumonology, Medical School, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece.
⁵ Respiratory Physiology Laboratory, Medical School, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus.
⁶ Otto Loewi Research Center for Vascular Biology, Immunology and Inflammation, Division of Pharmacology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
⁷ Department of Respiratory Diseases, Univ Montpellier, CHU Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
⁸ PhyMedExp, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, INSERM, CHU Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
⁹ Laboratory of Immunoregulation and Mucosal Immunology, VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research, Ghent, Belgium.
¹⁰ Lung Immunity Translational Research Group in Respiratory Diseases, Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP), Badalona, Spain.
¹¹ Institute for Cardiovascular Prevention (IPEK), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich, Munich, Germany.
¹² German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Munich Heart Alliance (MHA), Munich, Germany.
¹³ University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Departments of Pathology & Medical Biology and Pulmonary Diseases, Groningen Institute for Asthma and COPD (GRIAC), Groningen, The Netherlands.
¹⁴ Biodiscovery Institute, Translational Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.

Abstract

The Translational Science Working Group at the European Respiratory Society (ERS) aims to bridge the gap between basic and clinical science by providing a platform where scientists, clinicians and experts in the respiratory field can actively shape translational research. For the 2023 Congress, dedicated translational science sessions were created and sessions of interest to many assemblies from the clinical and the scientific point of view were tagged as translational sessions, attracting clinical and scientific experts to the same room to discuss relevant topics and strengthening translational efforts among all ERS assemblies.