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Anne van der Does attended the Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) and Conference (GRC) on Antimicrobial Peptides which was held from February 25th till March 3rd, 2017 in Ventura, California, U.S.A.
Irma Tindemans attended the Keystone meeting on Asthma: from pathway biology to precision therapeutics which was held on February 12-16, 2017 in Keystone, USA.
Katja Obieglo attended the 15th EAACI Immunology Winter School which took place in Sierra Nevada (Spain) on 26-29 January 2017.
This is a descriptive review based on previous own research into this design and it contains some clear recommendations for pulmonologists that prescribe TKI's.
This article is about big data analysis and the value of predicting the prognosis of the individual patient. They show the use of a self learning model.
Verslag door Arno van 't Hoog over het KNAW symposium - Vermoeidheid bij chronische ziekten
Longfonds: 70% Nederlanders onderschat schade door ongezonde lucht
Article selected by the news committee, January 2017
Article selected by the news committee, January 2017
Article selected by the news committee, January 2017
Mannen en vrouwen met een milde vorm van astma hebben duidelijke verschillen in hun longen. Dat blijkt uit onderzoek van Groningse immunologen. Wanneer de onderzoekers weefsel uit de luchtwegen van mannen of vrouwen met astma bekeken, vonden ze met name verschillen in een bepaald type ontstekingscellen. 'Dit onderzoek laat zien dat we bij het zoeken naar andere of betere medicijnen tegen astma veel meer rekening moeten houden met de verschillen tussen mannen en vrouwen', zegt professor Barbro Melgert, hoogleraar Farmaceutische immunologie aan de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.
Anita Kneppers attended the 9th Cachexia conference which was held on December 10-11th, 2017 in Berlin, Germany.
Evelyn de Jong attended the annual meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology, which was held from the 25th of September till the 28th of September in Boston, USA.
Inge Schreurs attended the Joint BSI & NVVI Congress which was held on 6-9 December 2016 in Liverpool, UK.
Konda Babu Kurakula attended the International Vascular Biology Meeting (IVBM) in Boston, USA from 30th October to 3rd November in 2016.
One of the first articles derived from the U-BIOPRED consortium giving insight in the origin of severe asthma.
One of the first articles from the U-BIOPRED consortium that provides new insight in the origin of severe asthma
This symposium will bring together world experts in the topic of fatigue in patients with chronic non-communicable disease, like respiratory, cardiovascular and oncologic diseases. It aims to bring forward ideas for best approaches in research and clinical practice to tackle the origins and management of this very common and overlapping symptom in many chronic diseases, that affects a patients' daily quality of life, and impacts societal and professional participation.
We are pleased to announce the upcoming NRS Young Investigator Symposium (YIS) which will be organized for the 8th time on Friday November 18th 2016 at Casa 400 in Amsterdam.
The symposium was organized by Prof Irene Heijink (UMCG, Groningen) and Dr Robbert Rottier (Erasmus MC, Rotterdam) as part of the NRS task force Innovative Research. The goal of the meeting was to stimulate research in the Netherlands aimed at repair of damaged lung tissue.
