Annual Congress Stockholm 2007

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PG1 - Asthma: from bench to bedside

Postgraduate Course
Chairs: M. Cazzola (Rome, Italy), N. Hanania (Houston, United States of America)
Aims: This is the second course in a three-year postgraduate core curriculum covering the main issues on asthma from pathogenesis to current treatment strategies. The aims of this module are:
• to review how genetic and environmental factors interact in the induction and suppression of asthma phenotypes, and to identify genes of special relevance to asthma and atopy;
• to describe the cellular and molecular basis of airway inflammation and remodelling;
• to provide an insight into the interactions between nose and lung in allergic and nonallergic asthma, to describe the mechanisms of interaction and to review the effects of mutual treatment;
? to describe the clinical and mechanistic heterogeneity of severe asthma and the current approach to management.

Genetic and environmental interaction in allergy and asthma S. Holgate (Southampton, United Kingdom)
Role of cytokines and chemokines in bronchial hyperresponsiveness and airway inflammation and remodelling P. J. Barnes (London, United Kingdom)
The nose–lung interaction in allergic rhinitis and asthma: united airways disease G. Canonica (Genoa, Italy)
Evaluation and management of difficult-to-control asthma E. Bel (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)