At the invitation of America National Health Center and National Cardiopulmonary Research Institution, director of respiration medicine He Bei and deputy director Shen Ning attended the global health center steering committee meeting held in Bethesda, Maryland, America from April 13^th to 16th. At the meeting, the report of the NIH/NHLBI funding project “International multi-center study of patients with lung microbiome chronic obstructive pulmonary disease” which was participated by our respiration medicine got the attention of the conventioneers.

Translated by YANG Hui, Proof by HAN Mingyue, ZHAO Yingxi