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Tuesday, 05/04/2010
5 IAMR Group Research Projects have been awarded grants by SEPAR in the 2009 Call for Grant Applications
The SEPAR 2009 Grants of Fundació Respira (Spanish Lung Foundation) are worth €390,000
The IAMR research team was successful in the 2009 call for the Spanish Society of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery (SEPAR) - Fundació Respira grants (http://www.separ.es). Antoni Torres, Carmen Lucena, Eva Polverino, Mariano Esperatti and Hugo Loureiro obtained funding to carry out their research projects in the field of respiratory diseases.
Dr. Antoni Torres obtained a SEPAR 09 grant for his project Effect of inspiratory time and end expiratory pressure on bacterial translocation during mechanical ventilation. The aim of this project is to identify bacterial translocation from the ETT into the respiratory tract at different length of ventilation.
Dr. Eva Polverino with Catia Cillóniz obtained a SEPAR 09 grant for their project Molecular diagnosis of pneumonia in immunocompetent adults. The objective of this study is the clinical validation of the technique of RT-PCR for rapid diagnosis of pneumococcal infection to improve antimicrobial therapy and to reduce the emergence of antibiotic resistance.
Mariano Esperatti, specialist in internal medicine and intensive care, obtained a SEPAR 09 grant for his project Viral ventilator-associated pneumonia: incidence, clinical outcomes and associated systemic inflammatory response. The aims for this study are: to determine the incidence of VAP caused by respiratory viruses, to determine the risk factors for viral VAP, to assess the effects of viral VAP and mixed (viral-bacterial) on clinically relevant outcomes, among others.
Hugo Loureiro, research physician specialized in Pneumology, obtained a SEPAR 09 grant for his project Use of Pro-atrial natriuretic peptide and Brain Natriuretic Peptide in Weaning of Mechanical Ventilation to analyze the changes and the predictive capacity of pro-ANP and BNP in the weaning failure.
Carmen Lucena, research physician specialized in Pneumology, obtained a SEPAR 09 grant for her project Influence of the innate immune response on respiratory infections in receptors of hematopoietic steam cell transplantation, which has been also supported by FUCAP 2010 grants. The main objective of this project 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.
SEPAR-Fundació Respira awards a number of grants each year with the aim of encouraging research in the field of respiratory disease. There are several grants, with a value of between €6000 and €12,000.