Scientific Grants and Sponsored Delegates

ERS/ELF Travel Grant for Best Abstract in Patient Centered Research

Financially supported by ELF
Two prizes of €1,500

• Sara Miranda (Portugal) - 'Triangulated perspectives on outcomes used in pulmonary rehabilitation of patients with COPD'
• Debra Reynolds-Sandford (Australia) - 'Preparatory grief, anxiety and depression in IPF patients and their caregivers: A fuller picture of the psychological impact of IPF'

ERS Best Abstract Grant for Healthy Lungs for Life

Financially supported by ELF
One prize of €2,000

• Ane Johannessen (Norway) - 'Long-term air pollution exposure is associated with sick leave 20 years later'

Financially supported by Linde Medical

• Anita Kneppers (Netherlands) - 'Unbiased analysis of skeletal muscle molecular responses upon pulmonary rehabilitation in advanced COPD'
• Patricia Freitas (Brazil) - 'Exercise improves physical activity and comorbidities in obese adults with asthma'
• Jakob Lyngby Kjaergaard (Denmark) - 'Early pulmonary rehabilitation after acute exacerbation of COPD'
• Konrad Schultz (Germany) - 'Effectiveness of Pulmonary Rehabilitation for Patients with Asthma: EPRA-RCT'
• David Currow (Australia) - 'Regular extended release morphine for chronic breathlessness: a multi-centre double-blind RCT'

ERS Interventional Pulmonology Travel Grant

Financially supported by Olympus
Two prizes of €1,000

• Annika W.M. Goorsenberg - 'Acute Airway Effects of Bronchial Thermoplasty Assessed by Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)'
• Michele Mondoni - 'Optimal timing of bronchoscopy in patients with hemoptysis'

ERS Grant for Best Abstract in Noninvasive Ventilatory Support for Chronic Lung Diseases

Financially supported by Breas Medical 
One prize of €1,000

• Maxime Patout (France) - 'Noninvasive ventilation (NIV) related adverse events'

ERS Grant for Best Abstract in Noninvasive Ventilatory Support for Acute Lung Diseases

Financially supported by Löwenstein Medical
One prize of €1,000

• Kateryna Bielka (Ukraine) - 'Dexmedetomidine for sedation during nonivasive ventilation in acute respiratory syndrome patients'

ERS Grant for Best Abstract in Bacterial Pneumonia

Financially supported by Basilea
One prize of €1,500

• Raul Mendez (Spain) - 'Platelet activation is boosted early in community-acquired pneumonia and sustained until 30 days later'

ERS Excellence Grant in Clinical Physiology and Exercise

Financially supported by MGC Diagnostics
One prize of €1,500

• Antonella LoMauro (Italy) - 'THE EFFECT OF PREGNANCY ON RESPIRATORY FUNCTION'

ERS Grant for Best Abstract in Paediatric Respiratory Physiology

Financially supported by ndd Medical Technologies
One prize of €1,000

• Louisa Owens (Australia) - 'Glutathione s-transferase genotype determines lung function deficits from infancy to adulthood in those with in utero tobacco exposure'

ERS Grant for Best Abstract in Paediatric Respiratory Epidemiology

Financially supported by Bilim İlaç
One prize of €1,000

• Bronwyn Brew (Sweden) - 'Prescribed analgesics in pregnancy and the risk of child asthma- a register-based study'

ERS Grant for Best Abstract in Paediatric Cystic Fibrosis

Financially supported by Vertex
One prize of €1,500

• Sylvia Nyilas (USA) - 'Repeatability of ventilation and perfusion assessment by functional MRI in children with CF'

ERS Grant for Best Abstract in Sleep Respiratory Medicine

Financially supported by Nox Medical
One prize of €1,000

• Camila Hirotsu (Brazil) - 'Obstructive sleep apnea as risk factor for incident metabolic syndrome: a multicentric prospective epidemiological study'

ERS Young Investigator Abstract Grant in Lung Transplantation

Financially supported by Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals
One prize of €1,000

• Daniel Adrian Wurlod (Switzerland) - 'Clinical implications of host-bacteria-virus interactions in lung transplantation'

ERS Young Investigator Abstract Grant in Clinical Lung Transplant Research

Financially supported by Astellas
One prize of €1,000

• Federico Blasi (Italy) - 'The role of pulmonary arterial wedge pressure in primary graft dysfunction'

Financially supported by POWERbreathe
One prize of €1,000

• Maria Koreny (Spain) - 'Determinants of study completion and response to a 12-month physical activity intervention in COPD'

Financially supported by MGC Diagnostics
Two prizes of €1,000

• Rianne de Vries (Netherlands) - 'Assessment of repeatability of eNose (SpiroNose) measurements in healthy and asthmatic subjects'
• Buse Ozcan Kahraman (Turkey) - 'Investigation of the effects of neuromuscular electrical stimulation in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension'

Financially supported by GlaxoSmithKline
Three prizes of €650

• Olivier Burgy (USA) - 'Extracellular vesicles from broncho-alveolar lavage act on cellular behavior during lung fibrosis.'
• Isis Enlil Fernandez (Germany) - 'Circulating MDSC modulate IPF progression by orchestrating immunosuppressive and pro-fibrotic networks'
• Kirsten Muizer (Netherlands) - 'The effect of age on lung epithelial barrier function'

The ERS Grant for Best Abstract in Airway Diseases

Financially supported by GlaxoSmithKline
Three prizes of €650

• Xin Yao (China) - 'Ezrin, a membrane cytoskeleton cross linker protein, as a marker of epithelial damage in asthma'
• Pawan Sharma (Australia) - 'Selective activation and targeting of autophagy in severe asthma.'
• Eder Fredy Mateus Medina (Spain) - 'IDENTIFICATION OF A DISTINCT EOSINOPHIL SUBPOPULATION IN INDUCED SPUTUM FROM ATOPIC ASTHMATICS'

Sister Society guests

Masahiro Nemoto (Japan), Akihiro Yoshimura (Japan), Chin-Chung Shu (Taiwan), Masahiro Yoshida (Japan).

Abigél Margit Kolonics-Farkas (Hungary), Adem Yasar (Turkey), Aekkacha Moonwiriyakit (Thailand), Ahmed Ben Saad (Tunisia), Aline Souza (Brazil), Alkın Yazıcıoğlu (Turkey), Amani Ben Mansour (Tunisia), ANDRES FELIPE VILLABONA RUEDA (Colombia), Andrey Sousa (Brazil), Andrius Januskevicius (Lithuania), Anna Konishcheva (Russian Fed.), Aung Kyaw Soe (Russian Fed.), Baishakhi Ghosh (India), Begüm Ergan (Turkey), Benan Caglayan (Turkey), Bianca Feldmann (Brazil), Burcu Camcioğlu (Turkey), CAMILA HIROTSU (Brazil), Daniela Jakšić (Croatia), Debraj Jash (India), Diana Marangu (Kenya), Dilara Bal Topcu (Turkey), Ekaterina Kozlova (Russian Fed.), Elizaveta Baranova (Russian Fed.), Emel Ceylan (Turkey), Eugene Shepichev (Russian Fed.), Felipe Machado (Brazil), Grigorii Kudriashov (Russia Fed. ), Hai Thanh Ngo Nguyen (Vietnam), "Hani (Salim" (Malaysia), Horacio Matias Castro (Argentina), Humberto Silva (Brazil), Ioana Buculei Porosnicu (Romania), Irina Morsikyan (Armenia), Irina Ovcharenko (Ukraine), Iryna Katovich (Belarus), Iryna Savelikhina (Ukraine), Jasna Rodman Berlot (Slovenia), Jessica Danielle Medeiros Da Fonsêca (Brazil), Karan Madan (India), Karina Couto Furlanetto (Brazil), Karolina Klester (Russian Fed.), Karthikeyan Ramaraju (India), Kateryna Bielka (Ukraine), Leah Githinji (South Africa), Leila Laouar (Algeria), Liubov Ponomareva (Russian Fed.), Lu Tan (China), Manjunath Govindagoudar (India), Mansoor Ali Syed (India), martin kristoffer ogbac (Philippines), Marwa Moaaz (Egypt), Maysa Rangel (Brazil), Mina Gharibzadeh Hizal (Turkey), Mouna Ben Khelifa (Tunisia), Müşerrefe Nur Keleş (Turkey), Neslihan Doğulu (Turkey), Oxana Munteanu (Moldova), Özgecan Kayalar (Turkey), Patricia D Freitas (Brazil), Peter Dimov (Bulgaria), Peter Odion Ubuane (Nigeria), Ram Mishra (India), Roberto Vera Uribe (Chile), Rustem Hayaliev (Uzbekistan), Sabrine LOUHAICHI (Tunisia), Sasho Stoleski (Macedonia), Shadi Baniasadi (Iran), Shama Razzaq (Pakistan), Shirley Campos (Brazil), Shrikant Pawar (India), Ulia Zinchenko (Russia Fed. ), Wei Xiao (China), Wojciech Kuczyński (Poland), Xin Yao (China), Yasemin Karaman-Kutluay (Turkey), Yasmin Saied (Egypt).

Annika W.M. Goorsenberg (NL), Anita Kneppers (NL), Jilles Fermont (GB), Anja Lena Thiebes (DE), Ruth Barker (GB), Charlotte Tai (GB), Nicholas Lane (GB), Grace Mcdowell (GB), Chiara Banas (GB), Elena Lopez Rodriguez (DE), Padmini P. S. J. Khedoe (NL), Jack Bozier (AU), Ana Cerezo Hernández (ES), Thomas Reijnders (BE), Iana Andreieva (UA), Santos Ferrer Espinosa (ES), Ana Cristina Alves Ferreira (PT), Xue Chen (GB), Dino Tan (AU), Denitsa Dimitrova (BG), Anirban Sinha (NL), Natalie Terzikhan (NL), Subhabrata Moitra (ES), Simon D. Pouwels (NL), Annabelle Bédard (ES), Hazal Yakut (TR), Soula Danopoulos (US), Marieke Wandel (GB), Jennifer J.P. Collins (NL), Irma Lechuga Trejo (MX), ASMA SAIDANE (TN), Tessa Schneeberger (DE), Melih Zeren (TR), Clancy Dennis (AU), Kubra Kilic (TR), Laura Lopez Lopez (ES), Alina Maria Petris (GB), Lydia Finney (GB), Mariia Krykhtina (UA), Mohammad Khan (BD), Deesha Ghorpade (IN), Céline Hubeau (BE), Claire M. Nolan (GB), Karina Simon (BR), Xueqing Liu (CN), Jacelyn Peabody (US), Christina Eichstaedt (DE), Konda Babu Kurakula (NL), Pedro Mendes Ferreira (PT), Rui Adão (PT), Ana Cerezo Hernández (ES), Annabelle Bédard (ES), Grace McDowell (GB ), Clancy Dennis (AU).