Table 2.

Consensus recommendations identified by conference participants

General category	Seven suggestions for high-yield next steps
Support new avenues of research into cellular approaches	1. Cultivate human olfactory and taste cell lines, as well as organoids
	2. Focus on cross-cutting basic principles of sensory regeneration
Develop and enhance clinical measures of taste and smell	3. Build capacity in the analysis of electronic health records and other large-scale data
	4. Disseminate methods to measure taste and smell dysfunction in a clinical setting
	5. Develop new and cost-effective ways to evaluate dysfunction in chemosensory systems
Increase awareness and research capacity	6. Encourage the formation of patient advocacy groups
	7. Train scientists in both stem cell and chemosensory biology