Agenda archive
7th National Lung Course
The NRS National Lung Course is a 3 day course on lung diseases and lung research for those early in their careers. It will take place 12-14 February 2025 at the Hotel Heerlickheijd van Ermelo. Maximum class size: 30 people, first come basis. Registration time frame 27 June to 1 November.

NRS Webinar-New treatment implications
NRS Webinar-"New Treatment Implications" 6 February 12:30-13:30
Invited speakers
Dr. Emily van ‘t Wout “Novel state-of-the art treatment implications and strategies in AATD”
Prof. Marlies Wijsenbeek “Current insights into the pharmacological treatment of pulmonary fibrosis and a look toward the future”
NRS members can join the NRS webinar for free.
NRS Webinar-Advances in COPD exacerbations
NRS Webinar-"Advances in COPD Exacerbations" 12 December 12:30-13:30.
Invited speakers
Dr. Kiki Waeijen-Smit “COPD exacerbations: cardiopulmonary risk, biomarkers and beyond”
Dr. Anke Lenferink “Tailor-made care and support for patients with exacerbations of COPD and comorbidities”
NRS members can join the NRS webinar for free.
Young Investigator Symposium 2024
16th Young Investigator Symposium
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29 Nov 2024
NRS Webinar-Chips in Respiratory Disease
NRS Webinar-"Chips in Respiratory Disease" 24 October 12:30-13:30.
Invited Speakers:
Dr. Anne van der Does “Development of Lung-on-Chip models to study tissue damage and repair”
Prof. Ramon Langen “(Don’t) hold your breath: development of Muscle on Chip devices for respiratory research"
NRS members can join the NRS webinar for free.
NRS Webinar-Innovative approaches in lung cancer
NRS webinar-"Innovative Approaches in Lung Cancer" 29 August 12:30-13:30.
Invited speakers
Dr. Matthew Oser
“Identification of Epigenetic Drivers of Small Cell Lung Cancer LineagePlasticity Using CRISPR/Cas9 Somatic Gene Editing In Vivo”
Dr. MariekeFransen
“Translational research of immunotherapy treatedNSCLC, focus on tumor-draining lymph nodes”
NRS members can join the NRS webinar for free.
NRS Annual General Assembly Meeting 2024
NRS Annual General Assembly Meeting
27 June 2024 17:30-18:30 @ Van der Valk Hotel Utrecht
NRS members are invtied to join the Annual General Assembly Meeting. As an NRS member, it is your right to be informed about our finances and activities and give suggestions to the NRS.
DLC 2024
Mark your calendar for the Dutch Lung Congress 2024! After the success of the Dutch Lung Congress 2023, we are thrilled to announce that DLC 2024 will take place on June 27th and 28th, 2024.
Bronchitis XI
Bronchitis XI; “Heterogeneity of Lung Disease in a Changing Environment”
Date: 19-21 June, 2024
Location: University Medical Center Groningen.
For more information and reigsteration, visit: https://www.bronchitis11.nl

NRS Webinar-Big Data in Respiratory Disease
The next NRS webinar-"Big Data in Respiratory Disease" will take place 30 May 12:30-13:30.
Dr. Jan von der Thüsen: "The -omics of respiratory disease: from images to proteins and back"
Jelmer Vlasma: "IL-13 differentially affects cell differentation in PBECs from patients with asthma"
NRS members can join the NRS webinar for free.
Advanced Technologies symposium
Friday 12 April 2024 in Utrecht - You can now register
Topics of Interest 2024: Live Imaging, Metabolomics, Human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC) culturing, Epigenetics
For more information see here.

NRS Webinar-eHealth
NRS Webinar-eHealth
The next NRS webinar-eHealth will take place 28 Mar 12:30-13:30. Speakers will be Dr Esther Metting and Marc Oppelaar. More information will follow soon. NRS members can join the NRS webinar for free.
NRS Webinar-Dietary Interventions
NRS Webinar-Dietary Interventions: 25 January 2024-12:30-13:30 CEST
Speakers:
Rosanne Beijers "Nutritional interventions in COPD: a targeted approach"
Marijn Veerman "Food drug interactions with small-molecule kinase inhibitors in pulmonary medicine"
Dutch Lung Congress 2023
DLC 2023 will take place 29-30 June 2023 at van der valk hotel Utrecht
More information can be found here:
If you are interested to see the success of DLC2022, read more below!
Advanced Technologies in Lung Research Symposium
NRS Advanced Technologies in Lung Research
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Friday March 31, 2023
Title symposium: Advanced Technologies in Lung Research
Location: University of Utrecht – David de Wied Building
Topics of interest 2023: Lung-on-Chip, scRNA-seq, CyToF imaging, genome editing.
Program and speakers information
To register. click here

National Lung Course
This National Lung Course is a 3-day course (February 8-10 2023), combined with two 1-day programs at the annual Young Investigator Symposium (YIS, December 9th 2022). The program (in English) will consist of lectures, interactive workshops with researchers, patients and fellow participants, career development activities and a social program.
NPL 2.0 Meeting 19 January 2023
The goal of this January meeting will be creating new collaborative initiatives that will work together on further exploring how these themes can be transformed into successful research projects and where they could be submitted for funding.
Young Investigator Symposium 2022
14th Young Investigators Symposium
NRS 14th Young Investigator Symposium “On bright ideas, big data and tiny living things”
December 9th, 2022 @Hotel Casa 400, Eerste Ringdijkstraat 4 1097 BC Amsterdam, Amsterdam (near train station Amsterdam, Amstel).
Registration NRS members: FREE (non-members: €80,- including a NRS membership for 2023)
Are you a young investigator (PhD students, post-docs) or young physicians in training doing research within the field of lung diseases in the Netherlands? Sign up for the YIS 2022! This symposium gives the opportunity to start/broaden your network in the Netherlands, to practice presenting and to discuss data, and of course to be inspired by the seminars given by (inter)national Keynote speakers from the ‘Lung Field'. Read more about the program and how to admit an abstract (optional) below.
NRS Webinar on Innovative Approaches
The upcoming NRS Webinar will take place on 3 November 2022 12:30-13:00 with the theme Innovative Approaches. Our speakers will be Firdaus Mohamed Hoesein from UMC Utrecht and Mandy van Gulijk from the Erasmus MC.
Dutch Lung Congress 2022
Location: Crowne Plaza Hotel, Utrecht
The Dutch Lung Congress aims to facilitate updating the field about lung science, to cross fertilize science opportunities in the Netherlands, and to stimulate networking. It will provide an opportunity to bring together everyone interested in lung science: basic and translational researchers, clinical researchers, patients, carers, industry, policy makers, etc.
This year the Dutch Lung Congress will be organized as a fully live event at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Utrecht (near Utrecht Central Station). The program will be mainly plenary, with some parallel scientific sessions. The science presented by the participants from submitted abstracts will be another highlight of the meeting.
Abstract submission is now open. Deadline 4th April 2022 23.59 h. Read more about the abstract submission here.
Further details about the program, registration and your stay (optional) will follow soon here.
