This year we are hosting the Edinburgh World Pneumonia Day Symposium to both highlight the ongoing work in Edinburgh that is seeking new ways to combat the disease, and to place these studies in their global context.

Session 3: 

• David Goldblatt (University College London) – Parenteral Glycoconjugate vaccines and protection at mucosal

surfaces

• Wouter de Steenhuijsen (University Medical Center Utrecht) – The local microbiota in respiratory infection

• Steve Cunningham (University of Edinburgh) – Mind the Gap - building the bridge to recovery