PG1 - Asthma: from bench to bedside
Postgraduate CourseChairs: 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.