World Aspergillosis Day 2023

Background 

World Aspergillosis Day was first proposed by a group of patients at the National Aspergillosis Centre in Manchester, UK. We had been discussing how pulmonary aspergillosis is a serious chronic disease not only for the groups of people in our clinic that have chronic aspergillosis (CPA) or allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) but also had implications for people with other illnesses including severe asthma (SAFS), tuberculosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and cystic fibrosis (CF).

We discussed how we might not only reach more people with CPA and ABPA but all groups of people who may have an aspergillosis infection or allergy. World Aspergillosis Day was born on that day.

The inaugural day took place on the 1st February 2018 at the meeting for patients & carers at the Advances Against Aspergillosis meeting in Lisbon, Portugal in 2018.

WAD 2023 Schedule

The aim of World Aspergillosis Day is to raise awareness of a fungal infection that is often underdiagnosed, like many other fungal infections worldwide.

After the success of our 2022 seminar series, in which almost 200 people joined us, we have decided to again pull together a series of exciting talks. This world Aspergillosis Day we will be hosting a number of seminars from experts across the field on different areas of aspergillosis, including research and patient support.

Watch the recordings here: 

Join us on Wednesday,1 February 2023, for the following talks:

9:20 – Welcome

CARES Team

9:30 – Hard Science 101

Professor Paul Bowyer

10:00 – CPA – Current scenario in India

Dr Animesh Ray

10:30 – The light at the End of the Tunnel – New developments in the fight against Aspergillosis

Ange Brennan 

11:00 – Is your home damp? If it is how might it affect your health?

Dr Graham Atherton

11:30 – Manchester Fungal Infection Group (MFIG) PhD Students

Kayleigh Earle – Developing a new model to study Aspergillus fumigatus infections in people with cystic fibrosis

Isabelle Storer – Identifying new drug targets to fight Aspergillus infections

12:00 – Fungal Infection Trust – Working together to improve awareness, treatment and patient outcomes for all those affected by fungal diseases.

Dr Caroline Pankhurst

12:15 – Case history web resource

Dr Elizabeth Bradshaw

1:00- 3:00 Patient Meeting

Your donations will help FIT NAC support thousands of patients and carers both now and into the future – so many patients & carers have told us how important this support is and what a difference it has made to their lives, and our researchers stress how important this involvement is in their research projects – from first applying for funding through to testing the outcomes.

WAD Archive

WAD 2022– Seminar series and Q&A