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Monday, 11/25/2019
Kasra kiarostami joins the IAMR group for his UB Master in Translational Medicine
As a veterinarian, he is deeply involved in the study of ETT-biofilm after Telavancin treatment in the pig animal model
Kasra kiarostami holds a Degree in veterinary of parasitology by the University of Azad since 2013 and he is currently performing a research stay associated with the Master in Translational Medicine-MSc at the Cellex laboratory, School of Medicine, University of Barcelona. He joined the IAMR group in November 2019 in order to do his Master Thesis, which he will defend in June 2020.
He works on a randomized clinical trial focused on the study focused on the effect of telavancin in comparison with linezolid on endotracheal tube biofilm in the IAMR pig model with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia. This study is coordinated by Dr. Laia Fernàndez-Barat and Prof. Antoni Torres, as its Principal Investigator, and isbased on previous studies by the research group in the porcine animal model.
Kasra also works in the microbiological analysis of respiratory samples from various projects of the animal model.