2023 | New horizons in respiratory medicine

• Charlotte Suppli Ulrik, University of Copenhagen 
  Title: Reshaping the management of mild to moderate asthma
• Celeste Porsbjerg, University of Copenhagen 
  Title: New horizons in severe asthma - setting higher ambitions in the era of precision medicine
• Thomas Sandström, Umeå University 
  Title: Air pollution and health effects - into the airways and beyond
• Irene Heijink, University Medical Center Groningen 
  Title: Damage and repair of the epithelial barrier in COPD
• Terry Tetley, Imperial College, London 
  Title: Mechanistic in vitro studies of particle interactions with the respiratory unit

2022 | Nature vs. Nurture in respiratory disease 

Key note speakers

• Ian Mudway, Imperial College, London
  Title: Environmental exposure, respiratory disease and beyond
• Pieter Hiemstra, Leiden, The Netherlands’
  Title: Repair and regeneration of lung tissue in emphysema
• René Lutter, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Title: Defective translational control in bronchial epithelial cells in asthma and COPD: relevance to inflammation and bronchial hyperresponsiveness
• Silke Meiners, Borstel, Germany
  Title: Metabolic regulation of protein degradation – implications for lung diseases

2021 | Cancelled due to the pandemic

2020 | Cancelled due to the pandemic

2019 | Inflammation in the Lung

Key note speakers

• Adnan Custovic, London
  Title: Interplay between infection and inflammation
• Ramon Farré, Barcelona
  Title: Mechanical stimuli on stem cells: an important factor in lung regeneration and repair
• Alison Humbles, MedImmune
  Title: Immunological mechanisms and strategies for targeting the inflammation in asthma and COPD
• Sejal Saglani, London
  Title: Pulmonary immunological functions at birth and in early life - key determinants of the development of asthma?
• Sam Bayet, Grenoble
  Title: Investigating Lung Structure and Function with Synchrotron Light
• Mona Bafhadel, Oxford
  Title: The use of biomarkers for assessment of inflammation and disease activity

2018 | The Aging Lung

• Professor Peter Barnes (London, UK)
  Title: The aging lung – an overview”
• Erik Melén, PhD (Stockholm, Sweden)
  Title:  Understanding lung function development;  genes, environments and respiratory disease
• Professor Deborah Jarvis (London, UK)
  Title: The Ageing Lung – news from epidemiology
• Professor Bengt Björkstén (Stockholm, Sweden)
  Title: The role of the microbiome, development of immune regulation and the pathogenesis of asthma and respiratory disease
• Professor Bruno Crestani (Paris, France)
  Title: Lung fibroblast – key cells in lung fibrosis

2017 | Personalized Medicine for Respiratory diseases

Key note speakers

• Ratko Djukanovic (Southhampton)
  Title: Clinical view of asthma phenotypes –experience from U-Biopred
• Tobias Welte (Hannover)
  Title: Biological treatments in asthma and COPD
• Clare Lloyd (London)
  Title: Innate and adaptive immune responses in airway disease.

Invited speakers

• Abraham Roos (Gothenburg)
  Title: Mechanisms driving common cold-induced exacerbation in asthmatics
• Anna Löfdahl (Lund)
  Title: 5-HT2B receptor antagonists attenuate myofibroblast differentiation and subsequent fibrotic responses
• Celeste Porsberg (Copenhagen)
  Title: Acute asthma: inflammatory phenotypes and immunological mechanisms
• Hamid Akbarshahi (Lund)
  Title: Allergic mechanisms regulating lung anti-viral defence
• Haoxiao Zou (Groningen)
  Title: Cigarette smoke changes cyclic AMP microdomains in PCLS
• Henning Stenberg (Lund)
  Title: Late allergic reaction –involvement of the small airways
• Holger Schlüter (Gothenburg)
  Title: BET inhibition rescues the fibrotic phenotype in lung fibroblasts
• Jesper Säfholm (Stockholm)
  Title: Mast cell Activation by Hyperosmolar Mannitol-challenge in Isolated Human Small Airways
• Jonas Erjefält (Lund)
  Title: Histological Decoding of Respiratory Disease Phenotypes
• Karin Von Wachenfeldt (Lund) 
  Title: TRISTAN: Translational Imaging Methods for Drug Induced Interstitial
• Kristian Riesbeck (Malmö)
  Title: Novel infection mechanisms in COPD
• Madeleine Rådinger (Gothenburg)
  Title: mikroRNA in allergy and asthma
• Sandra Ekstedt (Stockholm)
  Title: New profiles of neutrophils in asthma
• Sarah Allden (London)
  Title: Innate immune mechanisms in IPF
• Stephen Delaney (Gothenburg)
  Title: Progress in disease modifying approaches to respiratory disease
• Thomas Mandl (Malmö)
  Title: Pulmonary involvement in primary Sjögren's syndrome
• Ulf Hedström (Gothenburg, Lund)
  Title: Repopulation of bronchial scaffolds from COPD patients and healthy donors with primary human bronchial epithelial cell

2016 | New targets for respiratory diseases

Invited speakers

• Clive Page (London)
  Title: Research strategies for finding new targets for respiratory diseases
• Janette Burgess (Groningen)
  Title: The Extracellular matrix remodelling as a therapeutic target in asthma and COPD
• Anna-Carin Olin (Göteborg)
  Title: The diagnostic use of Exhaled particles
• Michel Aubier (Paris)
  Title: Endobronchial thermoplasty, who fits for this therapy
• Apostolos Bossios (Stockholm)
  Title: Adipokines as therapeutic targets in severe asthma
• Martina Schmidt (Groningen)
  Title: Being in the right place in the right time: Targeting COPD

2015 | 12th LURN Meeting 

Key note speakers

• Melanie Königshoff, München
  Title: Stem cells/progenitors and embryonic signaling in lung diseases
• Reinoud Gosens, Groningen 
  Title: Acetylecholine in chronic inflammation and airway remodelling
• Magnus Sköld, KI, Stockholm 
  Title: Diagnosis and treatment strategies of IPF in EU in general and Sweden in particular.
• Sven Erik Dahlén, KI, Stockholm 
  Title: Bitter taste receptors in asthma

Invited speakers

• Mattias Belting, Lund
  Title:Exosomes and Cancer
• Susanne Gabrielsson, KI, Stockholm 
  Title: Exosomes in COPD
• Mattias Magnusson, Lund 
  Title: Defining a road map of epithelial stem- and progenitor cells in human lung regeneration.

2014 | 11th LURN Meeting

• Professor Rachel Chambers (London, UK)
• Professor Gunnar Nilsson (Stockholm, Sweden)
• Professor Peter Sterk (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
• Patrick Mallia, PhD (London, UK) 

2013 | 10th LURN Meeting

Invited speakers

• Dr Andrew McKenzie, University of Cambridge.
  Title: "Type-2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2) in protective immunity and allergy"
• Prof. P.S. Hiemstra, Leiden University
  Title: ”Respiratory host defense and inflammation”
• Prof. Guy Brusselle, Ghent University
  Title: ”Genetic and epigenetic markers of COPD development”
• Prof. Dr. Oliver Eickelberg, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität and Helmholtz Zentrum München
  Title: ”Early stages of lung fibrosis”

2012 | 9th LURN Meeting

Key note speakers

• Professor James C. Hogg, iCAPTURE Center, St. Paul´s Hospital, Vancouver, Canada.
  Title: “Novel aspects on morphology of the small airways”.

2011 | 8th LURN Meeting

Key note speakers

• Professor Dirkje Postma, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
  Title: “Translational medicine in Gronigen - about genes, mice and disease”.

Invited speakers

• Professor Stefan Uhlig, University Hospital Aachen, Germany
• Professor Roland Andersson, Lund University, Sweden
• Dr Martin Iversen, Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark
• Dr Louise Lannefors, Lund University, Sweden
• Dr Helena Linge, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, NY, USA
• Dr Hans Grönlund, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden  

2010 | 7th LURN Meeting

Invited speakers

• Vibekke Backer, Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark - Potential importance of the different phenotypes for treatment strategies ‐ Personalized medicine versus “one size fits all”
• Ellen Tufvesson, Lund University, - Epithelial involvement during exercise
• Sara Wernersson, Uppsala University, Uppsala - Protective role of mast cell chymase in allergic airway inflammation
• Alf Tunsäter, Lund University Hospital, - Asthma and personality
• Maria Gerhardsson, AstraZeneca, Lund, - BIG3 concept – A Way to Tackle the Health Care Crisis?
• André Wennersten, Lund University Hospital, Lund/Malmö, - The BIG3 project in Region Skåne
• György Marko‐Varga, Lund University, - Protein Expression Research and its Impact on Lung Cancer Studies‐ Six years of Biomarker Discovery in Japan
• Angelica Brandelius, Lund University, - Inhibition of TSLP, a regulatory cytokine in allergy and infection
• Jenny Calvén, AstraZeneca and Lund University - Mapping of the hypoxia‐regulated gene response in lung epithelial cells
• Per Wollmer, Lund University Hospital, Lund/Malmö, - Microemulsion as new therapy for allergic rhinitis
• Björn Jonson, Lund University, Lund, - Emphysema/fibrosis, an underestimated combination in COPD?
• Chris Ward, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK - Ceramide is a potential biomarker of epithelial injury which is raised in the cystic fibrosis airway
• Hans Jürgen Hoffman, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark - Regulation of the high affinity IgE receptor on cultured human mast cells
• Kristian Riesbeck, University Hospital Malmö, Lund University - Outer membrane vesicles released by respiratory pathogens interact with the human host defence
• Cecilia Andersson, Lund University, Lund, - Mast Cells in inflammatory airway diseases
• Matthias Mörgelin, Lund University, Lund, - Collagen VI is a novel subepithelial target for primary adhesion of airway pathogens in COPD
• Oskar Hallgren, Lund University, Lund, - Enhanced Rho‐kinase dependent contractility in fibroblasts from COPD patients
• Anna‐Karin Larsson, Lund University, Lund, - Eicosanoids in COPD and airway remodeling
• Pernilla Glader, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, - Interleukin‐17 in human airways after endotoxin exposure exposure

2009 | 6th LURN Meeting

2008 | 5th LURN Meeting

2006 | 4th LURN Meeting

2005 | 3rd LURN Meeting

2004 | 2nd LURN Meeting

2003 | The very first LURN Meeting