2025 Washington DC

In this episode of Great ISAMs we go back to Rotterdam, the Netherlands, in 2011. The first ISAM congress for our host Wilbur de Kruijf. Together with organizers Hettie Janssens and Harm Tiddens all aspects of the science and the social event are being discussed. The theme of the congress was 'young talent'. In this podcast you will learn how the local harbor bosses got more food than the congress visitors, how Harm used his own band and his whole family to save money on the side program and how Hettie was pretty tired after the congress.

In this episode of the Great ISAMs podcast, organizer Bill Bennett and visitor Chantal Darquenne share fond memories of the 2013 Chapel Hill Congress. Ranging from southern comfort food, North Carolinian country music, inhalation aerosols in near zero gravity and progress in the field of cystic fibrosis. 

In this episode of the Great ISAMs podcast, organizer Sabine Häussermann and visitor Ronan MacLoughlin share memories of the 2015 Munich Congress. Discussing progress and setbacks in e-health, scratching the surface of Quality by Design and delving into drug delivery to patients on mechanical ventilation. And we learn how Ronan got daily inspiration from the coffee machine at the Munich congress and what that has to do with his later inventions regarding inhaled vaccination. 

In this episode organizer Phil Kuehl and visitor Bernhard Müllinger look back to the 2017 ISAM Congress. The congress was held in Santa Fe, New Mexico in the USA. Learn everything about the scientific program and the local micro brewers. 

In this episode organizer Barbara Rothen and visitor Josué Sznitman look back to the 2019 ISAM Congress. The congress was held in Montreux in the famous Music Hall, next to the statue of Freddy Mercury. Learn everything about the scientific program and how important our warm and open our network is. The boat tour dinner on the lake was also unforgettable.

Organizers Jim Fink and Andy Clark, together with visitor John Patton, look back at the 2021 ISAM congress in Boise, Idaho. Which took place in the middle of the SARSCov19 pandemic. Listen how they organized a hybrid event with live visitors from the US (with enough space to stick to the social distancing standards) and a lot of virtual visitors from around the globe. This podcast episode also highlights that for several ISAM members the pandemic was a special period, where many of us engaged in developing medicinal treatments and inhaled vaccines.

In this second episode, we look back at the ISAM Congress in Saarbrücken, Germany, in 2023, with organizer professor Marc Schneider and visitor Ulf Krüger. Hear everything about the scientific topics, the venue, the field trip to the Saar river and the reception at the city hall of Saarbrücken.

In this first episode, we look back at the ISAM Congress in Washington DC in 2025, with organizer professor Cathy Fromen and visitor Monbi Chakma Stefanova. Hear everything about the scientific topics, the venue, the new flash talk format and the young researcher's network.