DLC 2023 will take place 29-30 June 2023 at van der valk hotel Utrecht

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If you are interested to see the success of DLC2022, read more below! 

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.

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.

14th Young Investigators Symposium

NRS 14th Young Investigator Symposium “On bright ideas, big data and tiny living things”
December 9^th, 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. 

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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. 

National Lung Course 2023

The NRS National course on lung diseases and lung research aims at bringing basic and applied lung research in the Netherlands at a higher level by training young talented researchers. Participants will learn both the basics and state-of-the-art developments in the areas of (patho)physiology, treatment, methodologies, diagnosis, and career development. Disease areas that will be covered include asthma, allergy, interstitial lung diseases, orphan lung diseases, infectious diseases, COVID-19, COPD and lung cancer.

The main target groups of the course are PhD candidates (or Master students who are likely to start a PhD in the respiratory field in the next year) and postdoctoral fellows early on in their trajectories - NRS membership required - with either a basic science, translational or clinical background.

It will be 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. Study load will be 140 hours, which is comparable to 5 ECTS points. A certificate and accreditation of the 5 ECTS will be provided after completion of the 3-day course and attendance (either in the future or in the past) of one Young Investigator Symposium. However, it is possible to only attend the 3-day course, without ECTS accreditation. Admission to the course is €50,- (but NRS membership required) and 2 overnight stays in a single room, breakfasts & lunches and 2 dinners are included.

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The YIS is organized specifically for young investigators (PhD students, post-docs) and young physicians in training doing research within the field of lung diseases in the Netherlands. This symposium gives them the opportunity to start/broaden their 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”.
Location: Hotel Casa Amsterdam

The NRS task force animal models in pulmonary research organizes a yearly Experimental models Symposium in October. Our aim is to optimize the use of experimental models in lung research and to stimulate and facilitate collaborations between research groups of the academia and industry.
Location: David de Wied gebouw, M2.01, Universiteitsweg 99, 3584 CG Utrecht, de Uithof.

The NRS National course on lung diseases and lung research aims at bringing basic and applied lung research in the Netherlands at a higher level by training young talented researchers. Participants will learn both the basics and state-of-the-art developments in the areas of (patho)physiology, treatment, methodologies, diagnosis, and career development. 
Location: Hotel Heerlickheijd Ermelo

The NRS webinar committee organizes a monthly webinar that is followed by a digital NRS cafe on each last Thursday of the month (except in July). With this series we aim to inform, highlight, and promote pulmonary research from fundamental up to a translational and clinical level. We hope that, with this year’s exiting program, we can provide an interesting and educational webinar for the various backgrounds of all attendees.

We chose to address fixed themes that will be the backbone of each year’s series, in which topics per theme will change annually. This year we focused on Dutch pulmonary research, because we have so much exciting research in the Dutch respiratory field! We will kick off with the theme: rare diseases, the topic in that theme for this year is Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) and we are excited that Prof. Marie-José Goumans (Dept. of Cell and Chemical Biology, LUMC) and Marlies Haarman (Faculty of Medical Sciences, UMCG) will present the state-of-the-art of this field and their research!

We look forward to hearing your experiences, and to talk to you in the NRS caffé, which is hosted after each webinar. Please roam around on the webinar website to find information about the schedule and speakers, and to attend the webinar and NRS caffé.

Do not miss out on the NRS webinar series, please preregister now (takes up to one minute).