Closing the gap: novel translational research strategies
Symposium Chairs: Reinoud Gosens (Groningen, Netherlands), Maria Gabriela Belvisi (London, United Kingdom)
Aims: This session will explain why respiratory research in 2016 will need innovation in translational models of disease. Specific examples of how innovations in translational models of disease have helped to close knowledge gaps between basic and clinical respiratory research will be provided. How organoids, 3-dimensonal in vitro models, and the lung slice technique can be used in respiratory research to elucidate mechanisms of disease will be described.