PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Cecilia Andersson AU - Sara J. Bonvini AU - Peter Horvath AU - Eduardo Marquez AU - Imran Satia AU - Paul Kirkham AU - Florence Schleich AU - Marco Idzko AU - Reinoud Gosens AU - Jose Luis Lopez-Campos AU - Apostolos Bossios AU - Omar Usmani AU - Antonio Spanevello AU - Ian M. Adcock AU - Alexander G. Mathioudakis TI - Research highlights from the 2017 ERS International Congress: airway diseases in focus AID - 10.1183/23120541.00163-2017 DP - 2018 Jan 01 TA - ERJ Open Research PG - 00163-2017 VI - 4 IP - 1 4099 - http://openres.ersjournals.com/content/4/1/00163-2017.short 4100 - http://openres.ersjournals.com/content/4/1/00163-2017.full SO - erjor2018 Jan 01; 4 AB - For another year, high-quality research studies from around the world transformed the annual ERS International Congress into a vivid platform to discuss trending research topics, to produce new research questions and to further push the boundaries of respiratory medicine and science. This article reviews only some of the high-quality research studies on asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), bronchiectasis and chronic cough that were presented during the congress through the Airway Diseases Assembly (ERS Assembly 5) and places them into the context of current knowledge and research challenges.Members of the @ERStalk Airway Diseases Assembly discuss clinical highlights from #ERSCongress 2017 http://ow.ly/G51Y30i7fMR