ERS COPD Research Award Ceremony (supported by Boehringer Ingelheim) followed by the Hot Topic "It takes two to tango: innate and adaptive immunity in COPD"

Hot topics
Chairs: M. Cosio (Padova, Italy), S. Hodge (Adelaide, Australia), N. Miyahara (Okayama, Japan)
Aims: After the session the audience will understand the abnormalities in the functioning of the innate, as well as the adaptive, part of the immune system in the lungs of COPD patients, the interactions between the two and the way these deviations are thought to contribute to the pathophysiology of COPD.

COPD Research Award Introduction L. Nicod (Lausanne, Switzerland)
COPD Research Awardee 2012 - Exacerbations of COPD J. Hust (London, United Kingdom)
Dendritic cells as key players in COPD pathogenesis K. Bracke (Laarne, Belgium)
Adaptive immune system in COPD: auto-immunity or bystander? C.A. Brandsma (Groningen, Netherlands)
T-cells in COPD: harmful or protective? R. Jonkers (Amsterdam, Netherlands)