Ceremony for the ERS COPD Research Award (financially supported by Boehringer Ingelheim) followed by Hot Topic: Consortiums in respiratory medicine: the way forward?

Hot topics
Chairs: C. Brightling (Leicester, United Kingdom), L. Nicod (Lausanne, Switzerland)
Aims: At the end of this session, the audience will gain insights into the benefits and challenges of working in large consortia, in addition to understanding how to form a consortium and make it operational while using existing COPD disease-understanding consortia as an example.

Ceremony for the ERS COPD Research Award
COPDGene: a US-based consortium G. Criner (Phiadelphia, United States of America)
Running an IMI programme: PROactive T. Troosters (Leuven, Belgium)
Insights from the COPD Foundation Biomarker Qualification Consortium R. Tal-Singer (King Of Prussia, United States of America)