ERS International Congress 2021 virtual: highlights from the Paediatric Assembly

  1. Cristina Ardura-Garcia1⇑,
  2. Alicia Abellan2,3,4,5,
  3. Sara Cuevas-Ocaña6,
  4. Nadine Freitag7,
  5. Yin Ting Lam1,
  6. Heidi Makrinioti8,
  7. Monique Slaats9,
  8. Matteo Storti10,
  9. Emma E Williams11,
  10. Theodore Dassios11,12,
  11. Liesbeth Duijts9,13,
  12. Refika H Ersu14,
  13. Stojka Fustik15,
  14. Rory E. Morty16,17,
  15. Marijke Proesmans18,
  16. Dirk Schramm7,
  17. Sejal Saglani19,
  18. Alexander Moeller20 and
  19. Marielle W. Pijnenburg9
  1. 1Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
  2. 2ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain
  3. 3Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain
  4. 4Fundació Institut Universitari per a la recerca a l'Atenció Primària de Salut Jordi Gol i Gurina (IDIAPJGol), Barcelona, Spain
  5. 5Spanish Consortium for Research on Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
  6. 6Nottingham Biodiscovery Institute, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, UK
  7. 7Department of General Pediatrics, Neonatology and Pediatric Cardiology, Medical Faculty, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
  8. 8West Middlesex University Hospital, Chelsea, and Westminster Foundation Trust, UK
  9. 9Department of Paediatrics, Division of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine and Allergology, Erasmus MC – Sophia Children's Hospital, University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  10. 10Department of Chemical & Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
  11. 11Department of Women and Children's Health, School of Life Course Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
  12. 12Neonatal Intensive Care Centre, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
  13. 13Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
  14. 14Division of Respirology, University of Ottawa Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Canada
  15. 15University Children's Hospital, Skopje, North Macedonia
  16. 16Department of Lung Development and Remodelling, Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Bad Nauheim, Germany
  17. 17Department of Translational Pulmonology and the Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg, University Hospital Heidelberg, member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany
  18. 18Division Woman and Child, Department of Paediatrics, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
  19. 19National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK
  20. 20Division of Paediatric Pulmonology, University Children's Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
  1. Corresponding author: Cristina Ardura-Garcia (cristina.ardura{at}ispm.unibe.ch)

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Conflict of interests: CAG is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant number 32003B_162820), support for attending meetings from the ERS, and is the Early Career Member Representative of the Paediatrics Assembly of the European Respiratory Society (ERS). SCO's has received support for attending meetings from the ERS.MS received funding from the Chiesi Pharmaceutical S.p.a. for his PhD studies. RM has received grants or contracts from Deutscheforschungsgemeinschaft, Max Planck Society, Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg, and Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung; honoraria as the Editor-in-Chief, of the American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology; has a role as director of the International Graduate Programme, Molecular Biology and Medicine of the Lung, coordinator of the German Center for Lung Research Academy, Vice-Chair of the Gordon Conference of Lung Injury, Development, and Repair 2021, Chair of the Group 07.08 of the ERS, Chair of the Department of Translational Pulmonology at the University Hospital Heidelberg. AM has received consulting fees from Vertex Inc, lecture fees from Vertex Inc and Vifor Inc, has participated in the advisory board for Vertex Inc, and is the Secretary of the ERS Paediatric Assembly. MPijnenburg has received grants or contracts form Lung Foundation Netherlands and the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development., consultation fees from Sanofi, honoraria as a speaker from Abbvie and Novartis, and support for attending meetings from the ERS, AA, LD, HD, NF, YTL, MS, EW, TD, RE, SF, MProesmans, SS, DS have nothing to disclose.

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  • Received November 16, 2021.
  • Accepted January 2, 2022.
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