This article is part of the supplement: Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Animal Models of Asthma .

Editorial

Editorial: Experimental models of asthma

Armin Braun¹ , Thomas Tschernig² and David A Groneberg³

¹  Fraunhofer Institute of Toxicology and Experimental Medicine, D-30625 Hannover, Germany

²  Department of Anatomy, Hannover Medical School, D-30625 Hannover, Germany

³  Institute of Occupational Medicine, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Free University and Humboldt-University, D-13353 Berlin, Germany

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Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2008, 3(Suppl 1):S1doi:10.1186/1745-6673-3-S1-S1

Published:	27 February 2008

Abstract

Since 2002, a workshop entitled “Asthma in animal models” has been held once a year in Hannover, Germany. It is organized by the Fraunhofer Institute of Toxicology and Experimental Medicine in collaboration with the collaborative research centre “Sonderforschungsbereich” 587, “Immune reactions of the lung in infection and allergy” (Hannover Medical School). The aim of these meetings is an intense scientific exchange between researchers and clinicians coming from academic or industrial background. Over the years the topics within the extensive field of asthma and COPD have ranged from methodological aspects to the influence of infections and environmental factors up to perspectives in the development of new therapeutic strategies.