Proceedings of the 4th BEAT-PCD Conference and 5th PCD Training School

Laura E Gardner; Katie L Horton; Amelia Shoemark; Jane S Lucas; Kim G Nielsen; Helene Kobbernagel; Bruna Rubbo; Robert A Hirst; Panayiotis Kouis; Nicola Ullmann; Ana Reula; Nisreen Rumman; Hannah M Mitchison; Andreia Pinto; Charlotte Richardson; Anne Schmidt; James Thompson; René Gaupmann; Maciej Dabrowski; Pleasantine Mill; Siobhan B Carr; Dominic P Norris; Claudia E Kuehni; Myrofora Goutaki; Claire Hogg

doi:10.1186/s12919-020-00191-3

Proceedings of the 4^th BEAT-PCD Conference and 5^th PCD Training School

BMC Proc. 2020 Jun 19;14(Suppl 8):7. doi: 10.1186/s12919-020-00191-3. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Laura E Gardner¹, Katie L Horton^{2

3}, Amelia Shoemark^{1

4}, Jane S Lucas^{2

3}, Kim G Nielsen⁵, Helene Kobbernagel⁵, Bruna Rubbo^{2

3}, Robert A Hirst⁶, Panayiotis Kouis⁷, Nicola Ullmann⁸, Ana Reula^{9

10}, Nisreen Rumman¹¹, Hannah M Mitchison¹², Andreia Pinto¹, Charlotte Richardson¹, Anne Schmidt¹, James Thompson^{2

3}, René Gaupmann¹³, Maciej Dabrowski¹⁴, Pleasantine Mill¹⁵, Siobhan B Carr¹, Dominic P Norris¹⁶, Claudia E Kuehni^{17

18}, Myrofora Goutaki^{17

18}, Claire Hogg¹

Affiliations

¹ Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia Centre, Royal Brompton Hospital, Sydney Street, London, UK.
² Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia Centre, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK.
³ University of Southampton Faculty of Medicine, Academic Unit of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Southampton, UK.
⁴ Division of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK.
⁵ Danish PCD & Child Centre, CF Centre Copenhagen, Paediatric Pulmonary Service, ERN Accredited, Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark.
⁶ Department of Respiratory Sciences, Centre for PCD Diagnosis and Research, University of Leicester, RKCSB, Leicester, LE2 7LX UK.
⁷ Respiratory Physiology Laboratory, Medical School, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus.
⁸ Paediatric Pulmonology and Respiratory Intermediate Care Unit, Sleep and Long-term Ventilation Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, Rome, Italy.
⁹ Pathology Department, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain.
¹⁰ Molecular, Cellular and Genomic Biomedicine Group, IIS La Fe, Valencia, Spain.
¹¹ Department of Pediatrics, Makassed Hospital, East Jerusalem, Palestine.
¹² Genetics and Genomic Medicine Programme, University College London, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, UK.
¹³ Department of Paediatrics, Division of Paediatric Allergy, Pulmology, and Endocrinology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
¹⁴ Institute of Human Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland.
¹⁵ MRC Human Genetics Unit, MRC Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU UK.
¹⁶ MRC Harwell Institute, Harwell Campus, Oxfordshire, OX11 0RD UK.
¹⁷ Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
¹⁸ Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, University Children's Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.

Abstract

Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is an inherited ciliopathy leading to chronic suppurative lung disease, chronic rhinosinusitis, middle ear disease, sub-fertility and situs abnormalities. As PCD is rare, it is important that scientists and clinicians foster international collaborations to share expertise in order to provide the best possible diagnostic and management strategies. 'Better Experimental Approaches to Treat Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia' (BEAT-PCD) is a multidisciplinary network funded by EU COST Action (BM1407) to coordinate innovative basic science and clinical research from across the world to drive advances in the field. The fourth and final BEAT-PCD Conference and fifth PCD Training School were held jointly in March 2019 in Poznan, Poland. The varied program of plenaries, workshops, break-out sessions, oral and poster presentations were aimed to enhance the knowledge and skills of delegates, whilst also providing a collaborative platform to exchange ideas. In this final BEAT-PCD conference we were able to build upon programmes developed throughout the lifetime of the COST Action. These proceedings report on the conference, highlighting some of the successes of the BEAT-PCD programme.

Keywords: Chronic respiratory disease; Multidisciplinary; Primary ciliary dyskinesia.

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