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Wednesday, 10/09/2013
Dr. Gianluigi Li Bassi receives the ESICM prestigious Young Investigator Award
The 26th ESICM Annual Congress LIVES 2013 is running in Paris, France, from Saturday 5 October until Wednesday 9 October
The European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) 26th Annual Congress LIVES 2013 is running in Paris, France. This Congress is one of the major intensive care meetings of the year. Today, the last day of the event, Dr. Gianluigi Li Bassi will receive the prestigious Young Investigator Award.
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Monday, 10/07/2013
Dr. Catia Cillóniz receives the University of Barcelona Extraordinary Doctorate Prize
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Thursday, 10/03/2013
Gianluigi Li Bassi successfully defended his doctoral thesis: “New insights into the role of the semirecumbent position in the pathogenesis of ventilator-Associated Pneumonia and potential preventive measures”
The public event was held last July 8th in the University of Barcelona, Faculty of Medicine
Gianluigi Li Bassi has been working as doctoral researcher at the Applied Research in Respiratory Diseases group led by Prof. Antoni Torres at the IDIBAPS. He is the coordinator of the Animal Experimentation Division and his research focuses on finding new strategies to reduce the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia. Results presented in his thesis, directed by Dr. Miquel Ferrer, were published in the journalCritical Care Medicine and the thesis tribunal comprised Prof. Antoni Artigas, Prof.NeusFabregas and Dra. Paula Ramírez.
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Friday, 08/02/2013
Joan Daniel Martí successfully defended his doctoral thesis: “Efficacy and safety assessment of ventilatory strategies and respiratory therapy techniques to improve mucociliary clearance during invasive mechanical ventilation”
The public event was held last July 8th in the University of Barcelona, Faculty of Medicine
Joan Daniel Martí takes part in the Animal Model research line and his research projects are based on finding new physiotherapy strategies to improve airway secretions clearance in critically patients and reduce the incidence of ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP). Results presented in his thesis were published on 2012 and 2013 in Critical Care Medicine.
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Monday, 07/29/2013
Laia Fernández Barat successfully defended her doctoral thesis: “Biofilm study in a porcine model of ventilator associated pneumonia: role of systemic antibiotherapy in its microbiology and microscopic morphology”
The public event was held last July 5th in the University of Barcelona, Faculty of Medicine
Laia Fernández Barat has been working as doctoral researcher at the Applied Research in Respiratory Diseases group led by Prof. Antoni Torres at the IDIBAPS. She obtained her degree in Biology from the University of Barcelona. During her doctoral thesis her research was aimed to determine the effects of systemic treatment on endotracheal tube biofilm development. Results were published on 2012 in the journals Critical Care Medicine and FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology.
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Monday, 07/29/2013
Leonardo Filippo Difrancesco joins the Research Team
His work will be focused on nosocomial pneumonias
The latest incorporation at the research group is Leonardo Filippo Difrancesco, who holds a Degree in Medicine at the University of Rome. At the moment he is attending the specialization in the Internal Medicine at the University of Rome. His role in our group will consist of helping in the nosocomial pneumonia research line.
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Wednesday, 07/24/2013
SEPAR awarded two Applied Research in Respiratory Diseases group's projects with a research grant
The total budget for 2012 SEPAR research grants is around 500 000 euros
Applied Research in Respiratory Diseases research group was successful in the SEPAR - Fundación Respira 2012 call for grants. Miquel Ferrer and Eva Polverino received funding to carry out two research projects in the field of respiratory diseases.
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Tuesday, 07/23/2013
The XVIII scientific and technological research summer of the Pacific concedes a fellowship to stay in the Applied Research in Respiratory Diseases Group
Edgar Ortiz Ivan Salas is the Mexican student who received a scholarship for a research internship in Barcelona by the Dolphin program
His collaboration will last approximately two months (June- August) and it will focus on a clinical trial to evaluate the effects of systemic treatment on endotraqueal tubes biofilm from ICU intubated patients.
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Tuesday, 04/16/2013
The group Applied Research in Respiratory Diseases from IDIBAPS participates in 1 of the 50 most influential works of the last 10 years with Spanish participation
The international guideline entitled: Infectious Diseases Society of America/American Thoracic Society consensus guidelines on the management of community-acquired pneumonia in adults, with 1032 citations, is among the 50 most cited articles of the last 10 years with Spanish participation. Prof. Antoni Torres is the national expert of this clinical guideline published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
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Tuesday, 03/19/2013
IDIBAPS Applied research in respiratory diseases is one of the Spanish groups with a higher impact factor in respiratory research
The number of articles published keeps growing and the impact factor has increased from 76.37 in 2008 to 160.66 in 2011
The group is within the top 10 research groups with higher Impact Factor of all IDIBAPS, the biomedical research center with a higher scientific production in Spain. It is also the most productive in terms of scientific articles in the CIBERES, the multi-institutional research network in respiratory diseases supported by the Spanish Government.