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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.
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Sunday, 03/03/2013
Vanessa Díaz Ravetllat successfully defended her doctoral thesis: “Risk factors of postoperative nosocomial pneumonia after resection of bronchogenic carcinoma”
The public event was held on December 21st in the University of Barcelona, Faculty of Medicine
For her thesis Dr. Vanessa Díaz Ravetllat studied postoperative pneumonia cases and controls nested in a prospective cohort of 604 patients who had undergone surgery for bronchogenic carcinoma. The multivariate analysis identified three statistically significant independent risk factors for postoperative pneumonia.
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Friday, 01/18/2013
Silvia Terraneo joins the Research Team
Her work will be focused on ventilator associated pneumonia and the animal experimental model
The latest incorporation at the research group is Silvia Terraneo, who holds 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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Thursday, 01/03/2013
Acute cough alone should not be a guide symptom for antibiotic prescription
It is the conclusion of a GRACE study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases
Acute uncomplicated lower-respiratory-tract infection is the most common acute illness managed in primary care in developed countries. Even in low-antibiotic-prescribing countries, most patients with these symptoms will receive antibiotics. The Lancet Infectious Diseases has published an article led by the GRACE consortium addressing this problem, with Dr. Antoni Torres among the authors.
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Thursday, 12/13/2012
Francesca de Rosa joins the Research Team
She will stay for a year and she will focus on research on nosocomial infections
Francesca de Rosa holds a Degree in Medicine by the Facultat de Medicina i Cirurgia de Perusa (Italy) and she’s still receiving education as a specialist on Anesthesiology and Reanimation in Milan.
