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Thursday, 05/10/2012
Three IAMR Group Research Projects have been awarded by SEPAR in the 2011 Call for Grant Applications
SEPAR through Fundació Respira (Spanish Lung Foundation) will invest around €400,000 in research grants 2011
The IAMR research team has been successful in the 2011 call for the Spanish Society of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery (SEPAR) - Fundació Respira grants (http://www.separ.es). Antoni Torres, Carmen Lucena, and Beatriz Herrero obtained funding to carry out their research projects in the field of respiratory diseases.
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Friday, 05/04/2012
IAMR group incorporates a postdoctoral physician to work on endotoxemia pneumonia-correlated applied to animal model
This postdoctoral fellow comes from the University of Modena (Italy) to get experience in experimental research in the animal model
The latest incorporation at the research group is Ernesto Crisafulli, who is a postdoctoral researcher in Respiratory Physiopathology at University of Parma (Italy). His role in our group will consist in the evaluation of an experimental research for sepsis due to severe pneumonia.
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Tuesday, 04/24/2012
IAMR group incorporates a respiratory physician for the line of VAP and the animal model
This fellow comes from the University of Milan to get experience in research
The latest incorporation at the research group is Marta Di Pasquale, who has a Degree in Medicine at the University of Milano. At the moment she is attending the specialization in the respiratory area at the University of Milan. Her role in our group will consist of helping in the ventilator associated pneumonia line of research, and in the animal experimental model line as well.
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Wednesday, 04/11/2012
Interview with Marc Miravitlles on Diario Médico for the review article published in The Lancet about Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
According to his statements in DM, exercise is key in these patients
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is characterised by progressive airflow obstruction that is only partly reversible, inflammation in the airways, and systemic effects or comorbities. The main cause is smoking tobacco, but other factors have been identified. Go to Diario Médico
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Tuesday, 04/03/2012
Zinka Matkovic publishes her work entitled “Predictors of Adverse Outcome in Patients Hospitalised for Exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease” in The Journal Respiration
This manuscript is the result of a one year fellowship in the group Applied Research in Respiratory Diseases
Patients with previous exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), hypercapnia and hypoxaemia had the highest risk of an unfavourable evolution. This is the main conclusion of the manuscript recently published in Respiration and signed by: Matkovic Z, Huerta A, Soler N, Domingo R, Gabarrús A, Torres A, Miravitlles M. To draw this conclusion authors prospectively evaluated demographic and clinical parameters, including different multidimensional prognostic scores in patients admitted for exacerbation of COPD.
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Friday, 03/23/2012
A project on antimicrobial effects of systemic treatment on tracheal tube MRSA biofilm, leaded by Prof. Antoni Torres, was awarded by The Independent EUROPE ASPIRE 2011 Grant Review Committee
The project was carried out by the PhD researcher Laia Fernández Barat , as part of her doctoral thesis.
On May 2011, Prof. Torres, head of the Respiratory ICU at the Hospital Clínic, received a letter from the Independent EUROPE ASPIRE 2011 Grant Review Committee announcing they decided to award the project Assessment of antimicrobial effects of linezolid versus vancomycin on tracheal tube methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus biofilm in pigs.
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Wednesday, 03/21/2012
The group applied research in respiratory diseases, gets a big hit in the call 2012 of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) Fellowships
The IAMR group will host two ERS Fellowships and sent one of his pre-doctoral researchers, Joan Daniel Martí, to London also awarded with an ERS short term fellowship
Ernesto Crisafulli, Marta Francesca di Pasquale and Joan Daniel Martí have been selected to enjoy a short term fellowship that will allow them to stay a few months away from their home institution.
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Thursday, 01/19/2012
IAMR group incorporates a pharmacist for the line of the animal model
She is joining the research team to conduct her doctoral thesis
The latest incorporation in our research group is Elisabet Aguilera Xiol, who has a Degree in Pharmacy at the University of Barcelona. Her role in our group will consist of helping in the animal experimental model line of research conducting her doctoral thesis in the field of microbiology.
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Monday, 12/19/2011
IAMR group joins a doctor to investigate on alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency
She comes from the University Sassari to gain experience in research
The latest incorporation at the research group is Barbara Piras, graduated in Medicine from the University of Sassari, in Sardinia. She is currently doing the residency in pneumology at the University of Sassari. Her role in the research team will be to participate in the research of alpha-1 antitrypsin research line.
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Friday, 12/02/2011
Catia Cillóniz succesfully defended her doctoral thesis: Community-acquired pneumonia: A prospective study of etiology and clinical outcome over a period of 12 years of study
The public event was held last November 29th in the University of Barcelona, Faculty of Medicine
Catia Cillóniz is a biologist specialized in microbiology who is currently working in the Applied Research in Respiratory diseases group in IDIBAPS of Barcelona. During her doctoral thesis in Hospital Clinic, Dr. Cillóniz research focused on the etiology of community acquired pneumonia (CAP). Results were published in two journals of high impact factor: Thorax and Critical Care.The public event took place last November 29th in the University of Barcelona, Faculty of Medicine, Room 14, and the thesis tribunal comprised Dra. Rosario Menéndez, from Hospital La Fe in Valencia, Dr. Jordi Almirall, from Consorci Sanitari del Maresme and Dr. José Antonio Martínez, from Hospital Clinic of Barcelona.