Ongoing Clinical Research Collaborations

Clinical Research Collaborations (CRCs) are ERS-supported projects. They bring together multiple stakeholders, such as clinical and translational researchers, radiologists, biostatisticians, associated funding partners, and patients, to collaborate on an identified area within respiratory medicine. This multidisciplinary approach fosters a dynamic scientific community. CRCs aim to advance science and clinical research and improve respiratory health and medicine.

Ongoing CRCs

Start Date	Project: Acronym and title	CRC Chairs	Information
2025	EMPIRE – European Multicentre Pleural Infection REsearch Collaborative	Najib Rahman, Vasiliki Panou, Eihab Bedawi	Find out more
2025	SARCOIDOMICS – Advancing in High-Risk Sarcoidosis Research Through Multi-Omics: The SARCOIDOMICS Network	Paolo Spagnolo, Jacobo Sellares	Find out more
2025	EXPLAIN-IT – EXposome and Prevention of Lung diseases, An INternational Interdisciplinary Translational Network	Agnes Boots, Erol Gaillard, Ane Johannessen, Helen S Parks	Find out more
2024	IMPORTANCE – IMplications of Positive Airway Pressure and Home Mechanical Ventilation: TowArds optimal patieNt CarE	Marieke L. Duiverman, Manuel Sanchez De La Torre	Find out more Editorial April 2025
2024	iDREAM – Diagnosis and management of sleep disordered breathing in children aged less than two years old	Stijn Verhulst, Jessica Taytard	Find out more
2023	CONNECT – Moving multiple digital innovations towards connected respiratory care: addressing the over-arching challenges of whole systems implementation	Hilary Pinnock, Job van Boven	Find out more Editorial November 2023
2023	PANTHER – Precision medicine Adaptive Network platform Trial in Hypoxemic acutE respiratory failuRe	Lieuwe Bos, Danny Mcauley	Find out more
2022	PROFILE.net – PROgressive Fibrosing Lung diseasEs.network	Julien Guiot	Find out more Editorial September 2023
2022	AMR-Lung – AntiMicrobial Resistance in Lung infections	Anand Shah, Miquel Bart Ekkelenkamp, Stephanie Thee	Find out more Editorial December 2023
2021	Child BEAR net – Children’s Bronchiectasis Education Advocacy and Research Network	Anne Chang, Ahmad Kantar	Find out more Editorial October 2021
2020	BEAT PCD – Better Experimental Approaches to Treat Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia	Amelia Shoemark, Myrofora Goutaki	Find out more Editorial February 2021
2020	PELICAN – Prematurity’s Effects on the Lungs In Children and Adults Network	Shannon Simpson, Diane Gray	Find out more Editorial April 2021
2019	e-GLILDnet – A European Granulomatous-Lymphocytic Interstitial Lung Disease Network	Leif Gunnar Hanitsch, Annick van de Ven	Find out more Editorial April 2020
2019	CICERO – Collaboration In COPD ExaceRbatiOns	Mona Bafadhel, Wim Janssens	Find out more Editorial March 2020
2019	PHAROS – severe Pulmonary Hypertension mAnagement acROSs Europe	Olivier Stibon, Abilio Reis, Marion Delcroix	Find out more Editorial May 2020
2018	CADSET – Chronic Airway DiSeases Early sTratification	Alvar Agustí, Wisia Wedzicha, Rosa Faner, Erik Melén	Find out more Editorial March 2019
2018	EARCO – European Alpha-1 research COllaboration	Marc Miravitlles, Christian Clarenbach	Find out more Editorial February 2019
2018	NEUROCOUGH – New understanding in the treatment of cough – Clinical Research Collaboration: A pan-European multi-centre network to improve the management of cough	Lorcan McGarvey, Alyn Morice, Sean Parker, Marta Dabrowska	Find out more Editorial May 2019
2017	IMPACT – International Multicentre Pleural reseArch CollaboraTive	Uffe Bodtger, Federico Mei, Steven Walker, Jane Shaw	Find out more Editorial May 2019
2017	PEX-NET – Pulmonary hemodynamics during exercise – research network	Gabor Kovacs, Marc Humbert	Find out more Editorial April 2019
2017	SHARP – Severe Heterogenous Asthma Research collaboration, Patient-centered	Celeste Porsbjerg, Florence Schleich, Hilary Hodge	Find out more Editorial November 2018
2016	ChILDEU – The European research collaboration for Children’s Interstitial Lung Disease	Nadia Nathan, Matthias Griese	Find out more Editorial December 2018
2016	GLI – The Global Lung function Initiative network	James Allinson, Laura Gochicoa	Find out more Editorial February 2019
2016	SPACE – Severe Paediatric Asthma Collaborative in Europe – Enhancing participation of asthmatic children in therapeutic trials of new biologics and receptor blockers	Marielle Pijnenburg, Franca Rusconi	Find out more Editorial October 2018
2015	ESADA – European sleep apnoea database	Ludger Grote, Athanasia Pataka	Find out more Editorial October 2018
2014	EMBARC – European Multicentre Bronchiesctasis Audit and Research Collaboration	James Chalmers, Eva Polverino	Find out more Editorial November 2018 Editorial June 2023

Ongoing Clinical Research Collaborations

Ongoing CRCs

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