News overview

Bridging science and patient experience in RSV-asthma research

Chantal Korver shared her personal story during the yearly General Assembly meeting of the CLARITY project in Barcelona. Hearing a first-hand account of the consequences of severe RSV infection and the asthma diagnosis that followed years later offered an emotional perspective that enriched the research and helped drive towards a more patient-centred approach to healthcare. Although the research is not grounded in a single personal narrative, these perspectives play an important role in highlighting its relevance.

CLARITY team meets in Barcelona to discuss findings and next research steps 

Researchers from across the CLARITY consortium met in Barcelona to share progress, discuss emerging findings, and prepare for the next phase of the project. Read about the latest scientific developments and consortium activities.

Dagmar answers questions about RSV and asthma

In a short Instagram video on the Dutch medical education platform De Babydoctors, CLARITY researcher Dagmar Duijzer explains that children who had a severe RSV infection early in life have a higher risk of developing astma later in life.

Webinar: The genetic basis of virus-induced asthma

Register for our upcoming webinar on the genetic basis of virus-induced asthma. In this webinar, we address the following question: how can we understand why RSV leads to more severe or longer-lasting consequences in some people than in others?

ReSViNET's global conference on RSV prevention and therapeutic interventions

Last month, our partner ReSViNET | Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Foundation hosted its annual conference in Rome: the RSVVW’26 conference, a Global Conference on Novel RSV Preventive and Therapeutic Interventions.

First CLARITY Newsletter: Updates from the consortium

With our half-yearly newsletter, we invite you to stay connected and follow our research developments.

Showing our lab work on social media

On Dutch medical education platform De Babydoctors, CLARITY researcher Dagmar Duijzer presented her laboratory work to a broad audience. In two short Instagram videos, she explains her research, how her work contributes to improving long-term care for patients who experienced RSV infection in early childhood, and what motivates her.

New video: How we investigate mini-lungs in the CLARITY lab

As part of the RSV Awareness Week 2025, organised by our partner ReSViNET, we share a new animation video that shows how we use organoid lung models to study RSV and asthma in our lab.

This week: RSV Awareness Week 2025

This week, during RSV Awareness Week '25, our partner ReSViNET shares a series of posts and videos to increase understanding of RSV.

Webinar: From RSV to asthma

Why are children who had an RSV infection in early childhood at increased risk of developing asthma later in life?