BTS 25TH ANNIVERSARY

EDITORIAL

The future of lung research in the UK

Stephen T Holgate

Correspondence to:
Professor S T Holgate, Infection, Inflammation and Repair Division, MP810, Level F, South Block, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton SO16 6YD, UK; sth@soton.ac.uk

Received 16 August 2007

Accepted 27 August 2007

Abbreviations: AMS, Academy of Medical Sciences; BLF, British Lung Foundation; BTA, British Tuberculosis Association; BTS, British Thoracic Society; COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; MRC, Medical Research Council; OSCHR, Office for Strategic Coordination of Health Research; TB, tuberculosis; UKCRC, UK Clinical Research Collaboration; UKCRN, UK Clinical Research Network; UKRRC, UK Respiratory Research Collaborative

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The 25th anniversary of the British Thoracic Society (BTS) and the 60th anniversary of the Society’s journal, Thorax, seems an appropriate time to take stock of where we have come from, where we are now and where we wish to be in the future. Our beginning had its roots in the industrial revolution with poor and overcrowded housing and the ever present scourge of tuberculosis (TB). It was in 1928 that an ENT surgeon, St Clair Thomson, brought together The Sanatorium Superintendents’ Society, The Tuberculosis Society and The Nursing Committee into a single professional body, The Tuberculosis Association, which was reformed in 1945 as The British Tuberculosis Association (BTA), interested in the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis (fig 1).¹ The Association was small but highly effective in driving forward new ways of managing TB centred on sanatoria, fresh air and good food, but was quite separate . . . [Full text of this article]

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