Munich-Chicago Lung Conference

The annual Munich-Chicago Lung Conference is a partnership between Institute of Lung Health and Immunity at Helmholtz Munich and Simpson Querrey Lung Institute for Translational Science (SQLIFTS) at Northwestern. 

The second annual conference, "Environmental Perspectives on Lung Health: From Prevention to Therapy​," was held October 7–8, 2024 in Schloss Hohenkammer in Germany​ and featured sessions on COPD, lung transplantation, ARDS, organotypic models for lung regeneration and aging​, and lung fibrosis.

Organizers Önder Yildirim, Roxana Wasnick, and Jürgen Behr in Munich, Germany and Scott Budinger and Karen Ridge in Chicago, USA put together a program with outstanding speakers who presented and discussed the latest basic and translational research developments and clinical advances in environmentally driven lung diseases and aging with a focus on preventive and regenerative medicine.

Special thanks to Ewa Szczurek, Malte Lücken, and Fabian Theis at Helmholtz Munich for your kind invitation to a great dinner!