Yohei Korogi

I participated in the ATS International Conference 2019 held from 17-22 May in Dallas. Here, I report about the ISRD-APSR Joint Session and the whole Conference.

The Session was held on 18 May and started with 20 poster presentations from the APSR and ISRD on works ranging from basic to clinical. In the middle of the Session, Dr Lynn M Schnapp, ATS Secretary-Treasurer gave her talk, and her message was "Join the ATS assemblies and expand your network". There were also 20 mini-oral presentations in total from the APSR and ISRD. In addition, Dr Yoshinori Hasegawa (JRS), Dr Chau Ngo Quy (VNRS) and Dr Chunxue Bai gave their talks. In this Session, I thankfully received the Best Abstract Award from the APSR, and I briefly presented my work "Alveolar Epithelial Type 2 Cell Dysfunction in Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome Type 2 Patient-derived Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells".

During the ATS Conference, I mainly joined basic research sessions. I was surprised to see that so many works using single-cell based approaches for both human and murine samples. It is expected that many new findings about lung homeostasis and diseases are going to be published in the coming years. I also participated in the Assembly Meeting of Respiratory Cellular Molecular Biology. The Committee members donned cowboy hats and the atmosphere was warm and relaxed. Many researchers came to the meeting and had communications with each other.

On 21 May, I had a poster presentation. It was meaningful for me that many researchers from the various regions of the world came to my poster and we had good discussions. In addition, some patients with Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome (HPS) came on behalf of the HPS network to encourage the research of HPS. (Some posters regarding of HPS were near my poster.)

It was my first participation at the ATS Conference after I started research, and I really appreciated lots of presentations, discussions and networking with other participants. I sincerely acknowledge the APSR for the support.

Yohei Korogi
Kyoto University Hospital, Japan

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