ERS International Congress, Madrid 2019

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Citations should be made in the following way: Authors. Title. Eur Respir J 2019; 54: Suppl. 63, abstract number.

Airway regenerative medicine: from bench to bedside

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Chairs: H. Heijink (Groningen, Netherlands), I. Adcock (London, United Kingdom)
Aims: to present the tremendous potential of human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) for disease modelling and cell therapy development; to discuss research that describes the successful differentiation of hiPSCs into airway epithelium containing multi-ciliated cells, which paves the way for modelling of respiratory diseases in a dish; to present the opportunities offered by this innovative technology to assess the feasibility, efficacy and safety of a wide range of approaches, from gene therapy to ex vivo cell engineering, for transplantation and drug screening; to describe the advantages of hiPSC-derived airway epithelium, which will become essential for the development of new strategies to treat severe chronic airway diseases, in association with gene editing techniques.

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Derivation of epithelial-only airway organoids from human pluripotent stem cells H. Snoeck (New York, United States of America)
Induced pluripotent stem cell-derived alveolar epithelial cells: applications with lung-on-a-chip T. Geiser (Bern, Switzerland)
Pulmonary transplantation of human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived macrophages C. Happle (Hannover, Germany)