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Tuesday, 03/30/2010
The Catalan Pneumology Foundation (FUCAP) has awarded grants to two research projects of the IAMR group in the 2010 call for applications
The IAMR research team was successful in the 2010 call for grant applications by the Catalan Pneumology Foundation (FUCAP). The prizes were awarded in the Palau de Congressos de Girona last 26-27 March, during the 28th Pneumology Day
Dr. Carlos Agustí and researcher Carmen Mª Lucena Pozo from IAMR, among other researchers, were awarded a FUCAP grant for their project Influence of the innate immune response on respiratory infections in receptors of hematopoietic steam cell transplantation.
The main objective of this project, the grant of which is worth 12.000 euros, is to establish a correlation between the concentration of systemic (serum) and local (lung) colectin (MBL, SP-A y SP-D) and the type and prognosis of pulmonary infections in receptors of hematopoietic steam cell transplantation.
Dr. Miquel Ferrer Monreal and researcher Laia Fernández Barat from IAMR were awarded, among other researchers, the LETI grant for their project Study of the Biofilm in Ventilator Associated Pneumonia in a swine model. Role of the antibiotic therapy in microbiology and microscopic morphology.
The aim of this project, the grant of which is worth 12.000 euros, is to study the effect of Linezolid, in comparison to Vancomicina and placebo, on the formation of Biofilm in endotracheal tubes (ETT) coming from an animal model of ventilator associated pneumonia due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
Every year, FUCAP calls for applications for grants with the aim of encouraging patient-care, teaching and research work in the field of respiratory disease. There are several grants for amounts ranging between €12,000 and €9000.