and challenge traditional views of mechanisms of lung repair after injury and pathogenesis of several lung diseases. The goals of the conference were to summarize the current state of the field, discuss and debate current controversies, and identify future research directions and opportunities for both basic and translational research in cell-based therapies for lung diseases. This 10th anniversary conference was a follow up to five previous biennial conferences held at the University of Vermont in 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, and 2013. Each of those conferences, also sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, American Thoracic Society, and respiratory disease foundations, has been important in helping guide research and funding priorities. The major conference recommendations are summarized at the end of the report and highlight both the significant progressAuthorities today identified a motorcyclist who was killed in a crash at Ocean Boulevard and the Terminal Island Freeway Thursday night.

Edward Thorp, 58, of Huntington Beach died at the scene of the collision, which occurred about 8 p.m., according to the coroner’s office and the Long Beach Police Department.

According to police, Thorp was riding eastbound on Ocean Boulevard, possibly at a high rate of speed, when his 2002 Triumph America hit the rear of a 2008 Acura that was also headed eastbound.

The crash threw Thorp into the westbound roadway where he was hit by two different motorists who didn’t stop, according to police. Detectives said last week that they’re still trying to find the two drivers who fled. They were driving a dark-colored vehicle—possibly an SUV—and a silver