The European Alpha-1 Research Collaboration (EARCO): a new ERS Clinical Research Collaboration to promote research in alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency

Affiliations

• ¹ Pneumology Dept, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron/Vall d'Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), Barcelona, Spain.
• ² Dept of Genetics and Clinical Immunology, National Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Warsaw, Poland.
• ³ Dept of Internal Medicine and Therapeutics, Pneumology Unit IRCCS San Matteo Hospital Foundation, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
• ⁴ Irish Centre for Rare Lung Diseases, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
• ⁵ Alpha-1 UK Support Group, UK.
• ⁶ Alpha-1 Global.
• ⁷ Dept of Pulmonology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
• ⁸ Lung Investigation Unit Medicine, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
• ⁹ University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
• ¹⁰ Patientorganisation Alpha1 Deutschland e.V., Germany.
• ¹¹ Dept of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University Medical Centre Giessen and Marburg, Philipps-University, Member of the German Centre for Lung Research (DZL), Marburg, Germany.