The 2025 Union World Conference on Lung Health in Copenhagen

At the Institute of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine at LMU University Hospital, we're looking forward to connecting with global health experts at the 2025 Union World Conference on Lung Health in Copenhagen, Denmark (18 - 21 Nov 2025).

Several colleagues will be sharing their expertise on tuberculosis research including the following sessions:

• Track B: Lung Health (pneumonia, asthma, COPD, other respiratory diseases in adults and children); Late Breaker Oral Abstract Sessions
  Chair: Katharina Kranzer (THRU-ZIM/LSHTM/LMU Hospital)
  LB01 – Tuesday Nov 18 – 11:30 - 13:00
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• Diagnostic and predictive accuracy of a 3-gene M. tuberculosis Host Response Cartridge in household contacts – Updated results from the multi-centre prospective ERASE-TB study
  Presenter: Anna-Lisa Behnke
  LB01-1304-18 – Tuesday Nov 18 – 11:56 – 12:02
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• Spontaneous control of early Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in children exposed to M. tuberculosis without standard treatment
  Poster Presenter: Alia Razid
  TBS-EP17 – Tuesday Nov 18 – 13:20 – 13:25
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• Clinical predictors for radiological severe pulmonary TB in children: An individual participant data-analysis
  Presenter: Akshita Gupta
  SOA01-506-18 – Tuesday Nov 18 – 15:45 – 15:52
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• Improving collaboration through access: A scoping review of TB clinical trial repositories; 
  Non-sputum biomarkers for on-treatment prediction of TB disease recurrence
  Presenter: Mairi McClean
  TBS-EP59/TBS-EP74 – Wednesday Nov 19 – 09:25 – 09:30/09:50 – 09:55
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• Active case finding strategies
  Speaker: Mikaela Coleman
  SPS02 A – Wednesday Nov 19 – 09:40 – 09:50
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• Enhancing TB diagnosis and case finding among children
  Chair: Norbert Heinrich
  EP14 – Wednesday Nov 19 – 12:05 – 13:05
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• Accelerating prediction of treatment response in drug/regimen evaluation: The key role of biomarkers
  Chair: Norbert Heinrich
  TBS03 – Wednesday Nov 19 – 14:10 - 15:10
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• An AI chest X-ray severity score is prognostic of time to culture conversion in a pulmonary TB clinical trial
  Presenter: Erlandy Basson
  LB02-1319-19 – Wednesday Nov 19 – 16:46 – 16:54
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• The impact of prior TB on risk of subsequent TB in people living in households affected by TB: Results from the ERASE-TB study
  Presenter: Anna-Lisa Behnke
  OA14-237-19 – Wednesday Nov 19 – 16:54 – 17:02
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• Biomarker combinations of TB-MBLA with CFU and TTP give greater biological insight in EBA studies
  Presenter: Mairi McClean
  TBS-EP221 – Thursday Nov 20 – 14:25 – 14:30
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• Advancing TB care: Innovations in drugs, vaccines, diagnostics and treatment
  Chair: Michael Hoelscher
  OA26 – Friday Nov 21 – 09:15 – 10:45
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  Including the presentations:
  OA26-353-21 Refining research outcomes: Lessons from the setup of an endpoint review committee in TB observational diagnostic studies
  Presenter: Leyla Larsson, 10:00 – 10:07
  
  OA26-357-21 UNITE4TB – DECISION: A BTZ-043 phase IIB dose-ranging trial in combination with bedaquiline and delamanid
  Presenter: Michael Hoelscher, 10:28 – 10:35
• Severity of TB disease in people diagnosed through systematic screening
  Presenter: Cong Minh Nguyen
  OA34-429-21 – Friday Nov 21 – 16:08 - 16:16
• Evaluating the diagnostic accuracy of the TAM-TB assay for paediatric TB in the RaPaed-TB study
  Presenter: Alia Razid
  OA35-443-21Friday Nov 21 – 16:54 - 17:03

As of 13 November 2025; selected sessions subject to changes; please check the final conference programme