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Monday, 06/21/2021
Alba Soler joins the IAMR group as a research technician in the study "Human recombinant interferon gamma-1b for the prevention of hospital-acquired pneumonia in critically ill patients" - the PREV-HAP study.
Alba Soler holds a degree in Biology from the University of Barcelona since February 2021, mainly focused on molecular, cellular and systems biology. She enrolled the research group in July 2020 to perform her End of Grade Thesis entitled "Bacterial lung chassis for treating biofim-associated human respiratory infections", which obtained the highest scoring "Matrícula d'Honor" and was directed by Dr. Antoni Torres and Dr. Laia Fernandez-Barat. Now is under revision. Alba's End of Grade project is integrated in another project with competitive funding from La Caixa Health Research grants 2018 lead by Prof. Luis Serrano from Center from Genomic Regulation and Prof. Torres from IDIBAPS.
Additionally, during her research internship she has been actively participating in several projects of the group, entering data in the CIBERESUCICOVID study, learning how the microbiological analysis of respiratory samples works in various porcine animal model experiments and performing the microbiological and microbiome analysis of human endotracheal tubes.
From now on, she will also be in charge of the processing of respiratory fluid and blood samples (peripheral blood mononuclear cells, whole blood plasma) from patients progressively included in the PREV-HAP study. -
Friday, 06/04/2021
Award for the best Abstract
Award for the best Abstract
SOCAP in the celebration of its XXXVIII “Diada Pneumológica” has awarded the Award for the best Abstract to our researchers for their participation in the CIBERESUCICOVID project in the research of Covid-19.
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Friday, 05/07/2021
One year has passed since the start of 2 research projects on COVID-19
One year has passed since the start of 2 research projects on COVID-19 funded by the Government of Catalonia and the Carlos III Institute of Health of the Ministry of Science and Innovation.
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Wednesday, 05/05/2021
Pneumonia article published in Nature Reviews Disease Primers
Dr. Antoni Torres publishes in the prestigious journal Nature Reviews Disease Primers
Dr. Antoni Torres publishes in the prestigious journal Nature Reviews Disease Primers an article on Pneumology, entitled: Pneumonia. This is a recent review on pneumonia that can be considered as an article of great interest to any pulmonologist. Nat Rev Dis Primers. 2021 Apr 8;7(1):25.
Nature Reviews Disease Primers is part of the Nature Reviews portfolio of journals and has an Impact Factor of 40,689.
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Wednesday, 02/26/2020
Dr. Antoni Torres interviewed by TV3 news about the Coronavirus
As pulmonologist expert on respiratory infections and full professor at School of Medicine on respiratory diseases, he highlights what we need to know about the Covid-19
Dr. Antoni Torres' complete interview is available at TV3 website:
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Tuesday, 02/25/2020
Dr. Roberto Cabrera awarded for the Best Poster at the 25th International Symposium on Infections in the Critically Ill Patients
The Symposium was held in Barcelona on Feruary 13-14 of 2020 at the School of Medicine (University of Barcelona)
International experts in the field of respiratory infections in the critically ill patients attended this interesting symposium organized by: Antonio Artigas, Jean Carlet, Ricard Ferrer, Michael Niederman and Antoni Torres.
Dr. Roberto Cabrera and col. (Cabrera R, Fernandez-Barat L, Motos A, Lopez-Aladid R, Vázquez N, Panigada M, Álvarez-Lerma F, López J, Muñoz L, Castro P, Vila J and Torres A) were awarded with the Best poster award: Molecular characterization of Staphylococcus aureus clinical strains from endotracheal tubes of patients with ICU-acquiered pneumonia, a work that has been recently accepted for publication in Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control.
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Wednesday, 02/12/2020
Dr. Antoni Torres, awarded for research excellence " ICREA Acadèmia " 2019
Prof. Antoni Torres was recently honored by the ICREA Acadèmia 2019 Program for excellence in research in the area "Life & Medical Sciences".
ICREA Acadèmia is a program to support research exclusively for active teachers of public universities. The ICREA recognition involves a priority dedication to research for five years and provides the winner with an annual allowance to be preferentially allocated to research activities. -
Sunday, 01/26/2020
Patricia Oscanoa selected by the research contracts “Emili Letang-Josep Font” in Prof. Antoni Torres research group
This research contracts selects the best scientific projects in medical residents during their last year in Hospital Clinic de Barcelona.
The clinical research contracts “Emili Letang-Josep Font” has been resolved. Dra. Patricia Oscanoa: From Peru, she lives in Barcelona. She joined the Bronchiectasis Research Group directed by Prof. Antoni Torres 3 years ago.This program offers the opportunity to develop a research project with a 2 year temporary contract and professional category of specialist. During this time the researcher must focus intensively on the activity related to the project, which will also constitute the material of her doctoral thesis.The objective of the contracts is to capture young medical researchers, a profile that is especially necessary in the environment of Hospital Clinic de Barcelona.The project aimed at studying the prognostic value of Biofire Film Array pneumonia panel in bronchiectasis exacerbations is related with a FIS project 2018 directed by Prof. Antoni Torres Martí, research group leader, and Dr. Laia Fernandez-Barat, coordinator of the research microbiology laboratory. -
Saturday, 01/25/2020
Prof. Antoni Torres Martí group leader of IAMR research group on the 7 out of 20 best Spanish researchers in Medicine
An interesting article published in:
https://www.lainformacion.com/asuntos-sociales/massague-a-la-cabeza-del-ranking-de-los-mejores-cientificos-espanoles/6536647/https://www.lainformacion.com/asuntos-sociales/massague-a-la-cabeza-del-ranking-de-los-mejores-cientificos-espanoles/6536647/https://www.lainformacion.com/asuntos-sociales/massague-a-la-cabeza-del-ranking-de-los-mejores-cientificos-espanoles/6536647/
Highlights Dr. Antonio Torres, the IAMR group leader, on the 7th position of the 20 most important Spanish researchers in Medicine.
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Friday, 12/20/2019
IAMR achieved funding for one project at the health national call 2019 (FIS)
The success warrants funding for the next three years in the laboratory and in the Community-Acquired Pneumonia research line
Dr. Catia Cillóniz and Dr. Nestor Soler co-leaded the project entitled “Phenotypes related to short and long-term outcomes in community-acquired pneumonia ”. This project achieved 183.000 euros.
