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Friday, 08/06/2010
Antoni Torres is the new coordinator of the Corporate Research Program on Pneumonia of the Ciberes
The reelection of Corporate Programs Coordinator is part of the restructuring of the Steering Committee under the new statutes of CIBER
After 3 years in the coordination of the Corporate Research Program (ICP) on Pneumonia by Dr. Emilio Bouza, Dr. Antoni Torres takes the relief of the position and becomes part of the Steering Committee of the Ciberes. The coordination involves organizational tasks, managerial and technical monitoring. Therefore, coordination implies the development of a new program and financial management of funds assigned to it.
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Friday, 07/23/2010
IAMR researcher Dr. Miravitlles launched the book "EPOC: Diagnóstico diferencial" along with Dr. Josep Morera
The book stresses the key role of diagnosis in order to give an appropriate treatment
The book EPOC: Diagnóstico diferencial was launched in late June by both IAMR research group member Dr. Marc Miravitlles and Director of Pneumology Service in the Germans Trias i Pujol university Hospital Dr. Josep Morera.
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Friday, 07/16/2010
The IAMR Group successfully finishes the workpackage 4 of the MOSAR European Study to Reduce Resistance to Antibiotics
Since the begining of the study more than 6.000 patients have been enrolled by our group of research
MOSAR is an international multicenter project funded by the European Union that monitors resistances to antibiotics presented by nosocomial bacteria. The main objective of the project is to inform health care professionals on strategies to combat resistances and prevent the propagation of infectious agents throughout the community. MOSAR involves the participation of 9 countries of the European Union, 50 centers and a budget of €12 million.
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Monday, 07/05/2010
Jacob Sellarés successfully defended his doctoral thesis: physiopathology and role of Non-invasive ventilation in weaning failure
The event took place last week in the Universitat de Barcelona Faculty of Medicine
Jacob Sellarés is a Hospital Clínic de Barcelona pulmonologist and he is an IAMR research group member. Since he started working in Clínic 5 years ago, his research has focused on the mechanical ventilation weaning process, technically known as weaning. The room 11 of the Universitat de Barcelona Faculty of Medicine held last June the 30th the public defence of his doctoral thesis. The thesis tribunal comprised Dr. Antoni Ferrer (Hospital del Mar), Dr. Jordi Mancebo (Hospital de Sant Pau) and Dr. Andrés Esteban (Hospital Universitario de Getafe).
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Wednesday, 06/23/2010
43th SEPAR Congress to be held in Galicia
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Tuesday, 06/15/2010
The microenvironment in the lung modulates the activation of macrophages leading to different patterns of inflammatory response
This work of Daniel Closa and Antoni Torres groups is published in the online version of the European Respiratory Journal
In large series of nonresponding community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) patients, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) was observed to be a protective factor for nonresponse to initial antibiotics. This intriguing fact may be linked to changes in the phenotype of inflammatory cells and, in particular, to the induction of classical-M1 or alternative-M2 activation of macrophages, which result in different inflammatory profiles.
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Friday, 06/04/2010
The city of the Katrina hosted the latest insights on pulmonary and critical care medicine
The importance of preventive bundles was highly emphasized during the conference, written by Gianluigi Li Bassi
The annual International Conference of the American Thoracic Society was held in New Orleans on late May and there were presented the latest insights on ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). New treatments with probiotics and the evaluation of inflammatory markers in order to improve diagnosis are some of the highlights.
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Friday, 05/21/2010
Research Nurse Isabel Martín joins our group
She will work in Barcelona after her seven-year abroad experience in the UK as a nurse
Research Nurse María Isabel Martín López has just joined our research group. She has filled a nursing vacancy and her task will be, from now on, to provide a transversal service to the following lines: Acute respiratory distress syndrome and acute lung injury (ARDS-ALI), ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), noninvasive ventilation (NIV) and animal model. She will also participate in the 2 workpackages -WP3 and WP4- of the Mastering of Hospital Antibiotic Resistance (MOSAR) European project.
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Friday, 05/14/2010
The IAMR group will present 20 projects at the conference ATS 2010
The ashes of the volcano Eyjafjall threaten assistance on the busiest international congress on pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine
Tomorrow, May 15, opens the international conference organized by the American Thoracic Society in New Orleans and several researchers of the IAMR group are willing to travel if the volcano lets them so. The representation of the group is remarkably significant this year. A total of 20 abstracts have been accepted.
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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.