Marieke Wandel is a PhD Student at the University of Southampton, and a BALR Travel Award winner for the BTS Winter Meeting 2018. She gave an oral presentation her abstract "S28: Adam33 knock-out is protective against post-natal airway hyperresponsiveness caused by maternal allergy" on Wednesday 5th December 2018 in the session "Mucosal and Microbial Drivers of Asthma" and she has kindly shared her experience of the BTS with us. "I was very excited to attend the British Thora

This year, the second British Lung Foundation (BLF) Alumni conference was held on the 18th March at Imperial College London. The BLF’s alumni scheme was originally launched in 2015 with the purpose of keeping the charity in touch with the researchers it has previously supported through both research grants and travel bursaries. By making such large investments in lung research in the UK, the annual alumni conference of the BLF has already become a prominent event in the respi