DiscovAIR

20 Jul 2022

Watch the presentation recordings of the discovAIR session during the ERS Lung Science Conference!

The recordings of the presentations given during the discovAIR session of the ERS Lung Science Conference 2022 are available on the ERS E-learning platform. During this session the Human Lung Cell Atlas was officially launched!

29 Jun 2022

discovAIR attracts a lot of attention at the Human Cell Atlas general meeting 2022

On Monday June 27th through Wednesday June 29th, the Human Cell Atlas consortium organized the 2022 general meeting – in hybrid form with a large number of participants gathering in Vienna in the beautiful Palais Niederosterreich, welcomed by the host Christoph Bock. Participants who could not attend physically connected remotely. The discovAIR consortium was well represented at this meeting, and the coordinator Martijn Nawijn was on the organizing committee for this meeting.

22 Jun 2022

Final discovAIR meeting at Helmholtz Centre in Munich

On Monday 20 and Tuesday 21 June, the final discovAIR progress meeting took place at the Institute of Computational Biology of the Helmholtz Center in Munich. It was very interactive meeting with enthusiastic discussion of the results and plans for further analyses to increase their impact. This meeting concludes a very successful project that led to the launch of the first version of the Human Lung Cell Atlas!

22 Jun 2022

Human Lung Cell Atlas as Hot Topic at ERS Congress 2022

The Human Lung Cell Atlas has been accepted as a Hot Topic at the ERS Congress 2022 which takes place from 4 till 6 September 2022 in Barcelona Spain.

15 Mar 2022

Human Lung Cell Atlas launched!

On 11 March 2022 the discovAIR consortium officially launched the Human Lung Cell Atlas (HLCA) during the ERS Lung Science Conference in Estoril, Portugal. Malte Lücken (Helmholtz Center Munich) introduced the HLCA during his presentation and showed the potential of the atlas. During the coffee breaks and poster sessions, interested people could try out HLCA.

24 Feb 2022

EMBO Practical Course - Spatial Analysis of Gene Expression Tissues

The discovAIR partners located at Stockholm University and KTH Royal Institute of Technology are organising an EMBO Practical Course on Spatial Analysis of Gene Expression in Tissues. The course will take place from 2-6 May 2022 in Solna, Sweden.

07 Dec 2021

Successful discovAIR project meeting

On Monday 22 and Tuesday 23 November 2021 we had our first physical discovAIR project meeting since March 2019. Representatives of all project partners including colleagues from outside the project participated in this two-day meeting in Leiden, Netherlands. The meeting was a great success, not only because of the very interesting lectures but also because of the interaction and discussion among the participants during the breaks!

07 Dec 2021

DiscovAIR featured at the Longfonds website

DiscovAIR project was featured at the website of the Dutch Lung Foundation (Longfonds)!

09 Jul 2021

Aurore Gay won the Young Investigator Award 2021 at the Dutch Lung Congress

Congratulations to Aurore Gay for winning the Young Investigator Award 2021! Both the jury and the Dutch Lung Congress audience were very impressed by her excellent presentation. Well done Aurore!

23 Apr 2021

Radio Interview with Herbert Schiller

Herbert Schiller got interviewed by the German radio station Deutschlandfunk Kultur about his work for the Human Lung Cell Atlas.

17 Feb 2021

HCA Biological Network Seminar Series featuring the Adipose and Lung Networks

Welcome to the HCA Biological Network Seminar Series featuring the Adipose and Lung Networks!

20 Jan 2021

New discovAIR Publications!

Three new papers are published by our partners in the discovAIR project. Check them in the publication list!

16 Nov 2020

Martijn Nawijn gave a lecture for the UMCG Medical Public Academy

On Tuesday 10 November 2020, Dr. Martijn Nawijn gave the lecture: 'Covid-19: the route of the virus to enter our bodies'.