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The Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society 4:433 (2007)
© 2007 The American Thoracic Society
doi: 10.1513/pats.200701-032MS
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Introduction

Andrew P. Fontenot, M.D.

University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado

Peter M. Henson, Ph.D.

University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center and National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver, Colorado

The 49th Annual Thomas L. Petty Aspen Lung Conference was held June 7 through 10, 2006. The title of the conference was "Immunologic Diseases of the Lung." Due to the breadth of the field of immunology, the organizers chose to limit the scope of the meeting to rheumatologic lung disease and other T-cell–mediated disorders of the lung, such as sarcoidosis. It was decided that the 49th conference would bring together investigators from all areas of pulmonary medicine to discuss the recent advances in the field of lung immunology. The meeting was planned with an emphasis on the basic and translational sciences, including the potential use of biologic agents in the treatment of these disorders. There was some trepidation by the organizers in planning a meeting based on general scientific principles rather than on a specific disease entity. However, the exchange of ideas and the presentation of new information occurred at an exceedingly high level.


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  		Figure 1. Left to right: Andrew P. Fontenot, M.D. (Chair), Philippa Marrack, Ph.D. (Summarizer), and Peter M. Henson, Ph.D. (Co-Chair).

 
The state-of-the-art presentations on the first day focused on T-cell recognition, generation of an immune response, scleroderma lung disease, and the use of autologous stem cell transplantation as a treatment option for advanced lung fibrosis secondary to scleroderma. The second day centered on rheumatoid lung disease and the mechanisms of lung fibrosis. The next day focused on sarcoidosis with talks on the genetics of sarcoidosis, the role of CD4+ T cells, and potential etiologic agents in this enigmatic disease. On the final morning, the translation of these discoveries into the treatment of immunologic lung disease was discussed. There were also a large number of high-quality poster presentations and 28 oral abstract presentations centering on a broad range of immunologic topics. The meeting concluded with an eloquent conference summary by Philippa Marrack, to whom we are indebted for her significant contributions to the success of this conference.

We thank all of the speakers and conference participants, without whom this meeting would not have been possible. In addition, we thank the Francis Family Foundation for their continued support of the Parker B. Francis Lectureship. We also greatly appreciate the generous support of all of the sponsors of this year's conference. Finally, we thank Jeanne Cleary, who was solely responsible for the arrangement of the state-of-the-art speakers and social events. We hope that you enjoy reading the proceedings of the conference.

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Conflict of Interest Statement: Neither author has a financial relationship with a commercial entity that has an interest in the subject of this manuscript.





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