Scientific year in review

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Chairs: M. Spiteri (Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom), E. Bel (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Aims: This symposium delivers some of the recent major advances in understanding the pathobiology and molecular mechanisms associated with development of lung disease. These emerging concepts will hopefully lead to prevention strategies and/or translation into better therapeutic modalities.

Maurizio Vignola award ceremony R. A. Floto (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Biotrauma prevention during assisted ventilation S. Uhlig (Aachen, Germany)
Differential host susceptibility, particulate air pollution and daily mortality F. Forastiere (Rome, Italy)