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The 32nd European Respiratory Society (ERS) International Congress was held again in person at the FIRA Barcelona Gran Via Conference Center in Spain, as well as online. On-site attendance was limited to 10,000 delegates, with the spaces selling out before the conference began. The program included live streamed presentations, thematic poster discussion sessions, oral presentations, mini-symposia, industry exhibitors and skills workshops to discuss major respiratory fields that included thoracic oncology, respiratory infections, interstitial lung diseases, respiratory critical care, sleep and breathing disorders and pulmonary vascular diseases. This report will cover some of the most interesting presentations related to respiratory disease treatment. Copyright © 2022 Clarivate.
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In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and a lockdown on worldwide travel, the 14th Annual BIO-Europe Spring Partnering meeting was restaged in just 16 days from an in-person meeting in Paris, France, to the largest virtual partnering event in life sciences. In her welcome remarks, Anna Chrisman, EBD Group Managing Director, reported that more than 6,000 partnering and investment meetings between delegates had been scheduled to date. The virtual meeting also comprised 45 recorded company presentations, 50 virtual exhibits and 12 panel discussions, including 1 live session by industry leaders on how the industry was combating coronavirus. Other sessions at the week-long virtual meeting included panel discussions covering business development negotiation, investing in digital health innovations in the next decade, cardiometabolic disease, a focus on start-ups, and a closing panel on China’s road to recovery after COVID-19 where industry leaders there shared their insights from the early outbreak and how they were emerging from it. This report covers highlights from the meeting.