Barcelona 2022

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Reflections from the 2022 Lung Science Conference

Symposium
Chairs: R. Gosens (Groningen, Netherlands), S. Meiners (Sülfeld, Germany)
Aims: The ERS Lung Science Conference is at the forefront of basic and translational respiratory science, and it is an essential event for budding respiratory researchers looking to boost their career. It offers a unique opportunity to network with peers from across the globe and aims to present cutting-edge abstracts on novel experimental lung research. The Lung Science Conference 2022 took place on March 10–13 in Estoril, Portugal with the following overarching theme: “Mucosal immunology of the lung: Balancing protective immunity and chronic inflammation”. This session features a selection of scientific presentations that were given at this conference. In addition, the session highlights the winners of the William MacNee Award for young presenters (40 years old or less at the time of the Conference) who submitted an outstanding abstract, and of the Geoffrey Laurent Award for the Best Oral presentation.

The discovAIR project: a roadmap to the Human Lung Cell Atlas M. Lücken (Oberschleissheim, Germany)
Human CD116+ foetal liver progenitors migrate to the perinatal lung and give rise to alveolar macrophages in vivo E. Evren (Stockholm, Sweden)
Inflammatory blood neutrophils in COPD stem from activated bone marrow progenitors T. Kapellos (Munich, Germany)
Local and systemic response to SARS-CoV-2 infection in children and adults K. Meyer (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Virus-provided protection against allergic asthma L. Gillet (Liège, Belgium)
Discussion and Q&A