Standards of care and educational gaps in adult cystic fibrosis units: a European Respiratory Society survey.

Background: Significant progress in the field of cystic fibrosis (CF) has substantially extended the life expectancy of patients with CF (pwCF). Consequently, the population of adult pwCF has outnumbered paediatric patients in most developed countries. Ageing is a new factor that can contribute to disease complexity and can require adaptation of CF units.

Voices of conference attendees: how should future hybrid conferences be designed?

Background: With conference attendees having expressed preference for hybrid meeting formats (containing both in-person and virtual components), organisers are challenged to find the best combination of events for academic meetings. Better understanding what attendees prioritise in a hybrid conference should allow better planning and need fulfilment.

Methods: An online survey with closed and open-ended questions was distributed to registrants of an international virtual conference.

Cliques within the crowd: identifying medical conference attendee subgroups by their motivations for participation.

Conferences enable rapid information sharing and networking that are vital to career development within academic communities. Addressing diverse attendee needs is challenging and getting it wrong wastes resources and dampens enthusiasm for the field. This study explores whether, and how, motivations for attendance can be grouped in relation to preferences to offer guidance to organizers and attendees.

Meeting challenges in delivery of patient care: a reflection on the involvement of ERS in CPD of respiratory physicians.

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The ERS Research Agency: the beginning.

There is at the current time a significant opportunity for the ERS to leverage its experience and reputation as an international umbrella organisation to promote high-quality, multinational respiratory research with the goal of improving the health of respiratory patients. This editorial proposes a model for the role and structure of an ERS Research Agency. It is based upon research, implicit knowledge and explicit feedback from ERS members and selected external individuals and organisations.

The presenilin-1 familial Alzheimer's disease mutation P117L decreases neuronal differentiation of embryonic murine neural progenitor cells.

The presenilin-1 gene is mutated in early-onset familial Alzheimer's disease. The mutation Pro117Leu is implicated in a very severe form of the disease, with an onset of less than 30 years. The consequences of this mutation on neurogenesis in the hippocampus of adult transgenic mice have already been studied in situ.