1 Université Côte d'Azur, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice, IHU RespirERA, Department of Pulmonary Medicine and Thoracic Oncology, CHU de Nice, Nice, France.
2 Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, INSERM, Institute of Research on Cancer and Aging (IRCAN), Nice, France.
3 University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Pulmonary Diseases, Groningen, The Netherlands.
4 Department of Pneumology and Critical Care Medicine, Thoraxklinik University of Heidelberg, Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC-H), German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany.
5 Université Côte d'Azur, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice, IHU RespirERA, Department of Pulmonary Medicine and Thoracic Oncology, CHU de Nice, Nice, France boutros.j@chu-nice.fr.