The European Respiratory Society (ERS) was pleased to welcome over 180 delegates to this year’s Lung Science Conference (LSC), which took place in Estoril, Portugal on 23–26 March.
The focus of this year’s event, the 15th LSC to date, was ‘Mechanistic overlap of chronic lung injury and cancer’.
As in previous years’ the structure and content of the conference was particularly aimed at early career researchers as a platform to boost their careers – offering an opportunity for them to interact with peers, mentors and cutting-edge abstracts.
Young researchers from across the globe attended to learn from experts in the field as they presented on related topics including: pathological and mechanistic disease similarities; intersecting immunity and inflammation; and modeling disease with organoids.
Additional to the expert-led presentations, ERS presented three main awards to recognise eight distinguished poster presentations; the best oral presentation; and the best abstract submitted for the Young Investigator Session (The William MacNee Award).
The eight winners of the Distinguished Post Presentation Award received a framed certificate and a copy of the book ‘Molecular biology of the cell’. The Best Oral Presentation Award and William MacNee Award winners both received free registration to the upcoming ERS International Congress taking place in Milan, where they will present their LSC abstracts, and received an additional €600 bursary.
Rachel Chambers, ERS Conferences and Seminars Director, concluded the event on Sunday by announcing the topic of the 16th annual Lung Science Conference, which will be ‘Matrix influencing lung disease’. Next year’s conference will again take place in Estoril, Portugal, on 8-11 March, 2018.
Read the LSC press release to learn about the latest research from the event.
Distinguished poster awardees:
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Ms. Rebecca Delaney
Investigating the role of cathepsin s in the pathogenesis of cystic fibrosis-like lung disease
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Dr Iciar P. Lopez
Involvement of igf1r in bronchiolar epithelial regeneration: role during repair kinetics after selective club cell ablation
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Dr Argyris Tzouvelekis
SHP-2 is a novel anti-fibrotic regulator of fibroblast homeostasis
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Ms. Jessica Eley
Mtor-mediated cap-dependent translation is essential for human lung myofibroblast differentiation and collagen i synthesis
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Mr Sergio Piñeiro-Hermida
IGF1R deficiency attenuates acute inflammatory response in a bleomycin-induced lung injury mouse model
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Dr. Michela Terlizzi
Tumor-associated macrophages promote inflammasome-dependent lung tumor progression in mice
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Dr. Manuela Platé
RNA-Seq analysis reveals major differences between the effects of rapamycin and dual mTORC1/2 inhibition during TGFβ1-induced myofibroblast differentiation
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Dr Tiziana Patrizia Cremona
Postnatal development of pulmonary acini in rats
Best oral presentation:
- Dr Brintha Selvarajah
A Critical Role For Mtor Regulated Metabolic Reprogramming During Tgf-β Induced Fibroblast Collagen Synthesis
The William MacNee Award (best abstract for the Young Investigator Session)
- Mr. Xiang Zheng
Re-education of tumor-associated macrophages by modulating histone deacetylases in lung cancer