COPD-iNET: a call to the lung community for action to combat the global epidemic of COPD

Affiliations

• ¹ Institute of Lung Health and Immunity (LHI), Helmholtz Munich, Comprehensive Pneumology Center (CPC-M), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Munich, Germany [email protected].
• ² Institute of Experimental Pneumology, LMU, Munich, Germany.
• ³ Institute of Lung Health and Immunity (LHI), Helmholtz Munich, Comprehensive Pneumology Center (CPC-M), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Munich, Germany.
• ⁴ Respiratory Section, Faculty of Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK.
• ⁵ Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
• ⁶ Institute for Lung Research, Philipps-University Marburg, Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Marburg, Germany.
• ⁷ Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine Division, Mass General Brigham and Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.
• ⁸ Baylor College of Medicine Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
• ⁹ Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
• ¹⁰ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, USA.