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Drug development for airway diseases: looking forward

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Advancing drug development for airway diseases beyond the established mechanisms and symptomatic therapies requires redefining the classifications of airway diseases, considering systemic manifestations, developing new tools and encouraging collaborations.

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The authors and participants wish to acknowledge A. Martin, P. Pfister and K. Allen at Novartis for their role in facilitating this Respiratory Expert Council.

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  1. Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, SO16 6YD, UK

    Stephen Holgate

  2. Thorax Institute, Hospital Clinic, Institut d'investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), University of Barcelona, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Barcelona, 08036, Spain

    Alvar Agusti

  3. Novartis Institutes of BioMedical Research, Cambridge, 02139, Massachusetts, USA

    Robert M. Strieter

  4. Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Lung Health Research Centre, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 3010, Australia

    Gary P. Anderson

  5. Novartis Pharmaceuticals, East Hanover, 07936, New Jersey, USA

    Robert Fogel, Thomas R. Martin & Theodore F. Reiss

  6. Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL-1105AZ, The Netherlands

    Elisabeth Bel

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Stephen Holgate is Chair of the Novartis Respiratory Council, a non-executive board director of Synairgen and a consultant for AstraZeneca, Regeneron and Amgen.

Robert Fogel, Robert M. Strieter, Theodore F. Reiss and Thomas R. MArtin are employees of Novartis Pharmaceuticals.

Elisabeth Bel serves on advisory boards for GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis and Sanofi.

Gary Anderson serves on advisory boards for Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca, Pieris Pharmaceuticals and Boehringer Ingelheim.

Alvar Agusti has received fees for speaking at meetings, participation in advisory boards and/or grant support from Almirall, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Chiesi, GlaxoSmithKline, Kyorin, Menarini, Novartis and Takeda.

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Holgate, S., Agusti, A., Strieter, R. et al. Drug development for airway diseases: looking forward. Nat Rev Drug Discov 14, 367–368 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrd4645

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