NRS 1st Spring Meeting
Location:
Regardsz Meeting Center, WTC Arnhem, Nieuwe Stationsstraat 10, 6811 KS Arnhem
09.30:
Welcome and Introduction. D. Postma (Longziekten, UMCG, Groningen)
09:50:
Biomarkers in Respiratory Research and Clinical Practice: fact or vision?
Chairs: P. Hiemstra (LUMC, Leiden) and P. Sterk (AMC, Amsterdam)
- Biomarkers: the criteria to distinguish the best and the worse.
A. Zwinderman (Clin Epid & Biostats, AMC, Amsterdam) - Which biomarkers have changed respiratory research?
R. Lutter (Longziekten, AMC, Amsterdam) - Which biomarkers have changed respiratory medicine?
J. de Jongste (Sophia KZ, EUMC, Rotterdam)
11:00:
Coffee break
11:30:
Animal models in respiratory research: predictive or not?
Chairs: H. Smits (LUMC, Leiden) and H. Kerstjens (UMCG, Groningen)
- Asthma and COPD.
G. Folkerts (Farmacologie, Farmacie, UU, Utrecht) - Hyperoxic lung injury.
G. Wagenaar (Neonatologie, LUMC, Leiden) - The CF mouse; what have we learned from mouse models of cystic fibrosis?
B. Scholte (Celbiologie, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam)
12:30:
Posters@Lunch:
- 1a Cystic fibrosis and respiratory infections
Chairs: R. Lutter (AMC, Amsterdam) and H. Heijerman (HAGA, Den Haag) - 1b Sleep and vascular pulmonary medicine
Chairs: A. Vonk Noordegraaf (Amsterdam) and P. Wijkstra (UMCG, Groningen) - 2 COPD
Chairs: J. Vernooij (UMCM, Maastricht) and G. Folkerts (UU, Utrecht) - 3 Interstitial lung diseases and oncology
Chairs: P. Bresser (AMC, Amsterdam) and J. Grutters (Nieuwegein) - 4 Asthma
Chairs: L. Koenderman (UMC, Utrecht) and E. Bel (AMC, Amsterdam)
14:30:
Imaging
Chairs: J. Stolk (LUMC, Leiden) and H. Tiddens (EUMC, Rotterdam)
- Assessment of emphysema progression by CT densitometry.
B. Stoel (Radiologie, LUMC, Leiden) - Molecular imaging.
E. de Vries (Medische Oncologie, UMCG, Groningen)
15:30:
Tea break
16:00:
Systemic inflammation
Chairs: K. Rabe (LUMC, Leiden) and A. van Oosterhout (UMCG, Groningen)
- Systemic inflammation in COPD.
E. Wouters (Longziekten, UMCM, Maastricht) - Priming of circulating granulocytes in obstructive lung diseases.
L. Koenderman (Longziekten, UMCU, Utrecht)
17:00:
Concluding remarks and outlook to the next meeting. P. Hiemstra (Longziekten, LUMC, Leiden)
