Reducing the burden of asthma

Journal session
Chairs: M. Humbert (Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France), T. Geiser (Bern, Switzerland)
Aims: To consider approaches to reducing the burden of asthma, including the identification of risk and protective factors that could be targeted for the primary prevention of asthma, progress in asthma genetics and the identification of potential drug targets, and advances in the management of severe asthma in children.

Introduction R. Craven (London, United Kingdom)
Primary prevention of asthma: from risk and protective factors to targeted strategies for prevention E. von Mutius (München, Germany)
The genetics of asthma and the promise of genomics-guided drug discovery G. Koppelman (Groningen, Netherlands)
Management of severe asthma in children M. Pijnenburg (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Conclusion R. Craven (London, United Kingdom)