Redefining a Global Problem and an Urgent Need to Decipher the Disease’s Multiple Sub-Types

We urgently need more exchange about our findings from COPD research and clinical practice. But we need to broaden our perspective on the disease just as…

What the Human Cell Atlas (HCA) will tell us about ourselves and how scientists at Helmholtz Munich are facilitating this revolutionizing global endeavor.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) was in 2019 the primary cause of deaths from chronic respiratory diseases, accounting for 3.3 million deaths worldwide. In Germany, according to the “European Lung White Book”, the number of COPD patients…