ERS Fellowship Recipients 2016-2017

Long-Term Research Fellowships recipients 2017

• Raphaël BORIE (France to USA) - Identification of molecular markers of preclinical pulmonary fibrosis
• Luis ESTRADA (Spain to UK) - Non-invasive multimodal physiological biomarkers for monitoring COPD patients with comorbidities
• Deirdre FITZGERALD (Ireland to Australia) - Australasian malignant pleural effusion trial (AMPLE)-3: indwelling pleural catheter combined with talc slurry pleurodesis vs video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for the management of malignant pleural effusion
• Pedro MENDES FERREIRA (Portugal to Belgium) - β-3 adrenoceptors: a therapeutic target for pulmonary arterial hypertension
• Subhabrata MOITRA (India to Spain) - Delineate the physical and social environmental determinants of respiratory specific quality of life (QoL) in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), taking into account physiological health mediators (lung function and exercise capacity (6MWT)
• Jeanne-Marie PERROTIN-COLLARD (France to UK) - Role of Gastroesophageal Reflux in Severe Asthma
• Tania THIMRAJ (India to Sweden) - Mechanistic insight into occupational diacetyl exposure mediated popcorn lung disease using primary human bronchial epithelial cells cultured in air liquid interface condition
• Jiaxing XIE (China to UK) - Drug response signatures to bromodomain and extra-terminal domain (BET) inhibitors for treating corticosteroid insensitivity in severe asthma

Cofunded Long-Term Research Fellowships 2017

• ERS/EMBO: Jurjan AMAN (Netherlands to UK) - Catheps in B as a marker and mediator of progressive disease in pulmonary arterial hypertension
• ERS/EMBO: Ben ROEDIGER (Australia to Spain) - The role of monocytes and macrophages in pulmonary fibrosis
• ERS/SEPAR: Anna MOTOS GALERA (Spain to USA) - The effects of aerolized amikacin in pigs with severe Pseudomonas aeruginosa pneumonia

Fellowship in Industry

• Novartis: Alexander J. MACKAY (UK to Switzerland)

Short-Term Research Fellowships recipients – October 2016 round

• Mary BRIAN (United Kingdom to Austria) - Developing new methods to identify important airborne proteins responsible for causing asthma exacerbations
• Marta CAMPRUBÍ-RIMBLAS (Spain to Netherlands) - In vivo and ex vivo translational models of infectious lung injury
• Renata FERRARI CASTAN (Brazil To Spain) - Analysis and comparison of the transcriptome of COPD patients with and without lung cancer
• Pavandeep GHATAORHE (United Kingdom to United States) - Metabolic phenotype analysis of patients with pulmonary hypertension using a network based approach
• Hoi Yee KWAN (Hong Kong Sar China to United Kingdom) - Cachexia in COPD: prevalence, clinical correlates and response to pulmonary rehabilitation
• Christoph MAYR (Germany to Netherlands) - Systems Biochemistry in situ - Illuminating the Nanoscale Architecture of the Pulmonary Basement Membrane
• Brendan MCCANN (United Kingdom to Germany) - ADVANCE-1: Development and feasibility test of an adapted benchmarking approach for quality improvement in centre-based lung cancer care in a Scottish and a German lung cancer centre as well as in nation-wide cancer registration in Scotland and the German federal states of Berlin-Brandenburg – a pilot study from the European Initiative for Quality in Thoracic Oncology (EIQTOC)
• Riccardo MUHR (Germany to United Kingdom) - ADVANCE-1: Development and feasibility test of an adapted benchmarking approach for quality improvement in centre-based lung cancer care in a Scottish and a German lung cancer centre as well as in nation-wide cancer registration in Scotland and the German federal states of Berlin-Brandenburg – a pilot study from the European Initiative for Quality in Thoracic Oncology (EIQTOC)
• Laura PETRARCA (Italy to United Kingdom) - Comparison of new vs standard mucosal sample techniques for biomarker analysis in paediatric patients with respiratory failure
• Nadia RAHMAN FINK (Denmark to United States) - High-dose Vitamin D Supplementation in Pregnancy and Systemic Low-grade Inflammation in the Offspring
• Sarah Derya YANIK (Germany to United Kingdom) - Analysis of the interferon stimulated gene system in immune cells from COPD patients

Short-Term Research Fellowships recipients – April 2017 round

• Rui ADAO (Portugal to Austria) - Does Urocortin-2 restore altered Ca2+ homeostasis in right heart failure Induced by pulmonary artery hypertension?
• Veronica ALFIERI (Italy to United Kingdom) - Chronic pulmonary aspergillosis  in sarcoidosis: investigation into macrophage immune defects in response to Aspergillus fumigatus
• Jennifer CANIZALES (United Kingdom to Spain) - Development of a point-of-care lateral flow immunoassay to detect IgE sensitisation to mouse allergen in laboratory animal workers
• Per LARSSON (Sweden to United Kingdom) - Characterization of phospholipid composition in particles derived from small airway lining fluid
• Fabio PERROTTA (Italy to United Kingdom) - Testing targeted invitation materials to increase uptake of lung cancer screening in communities at high risk of lung cancer
• Pavan PRABHALA (Netherlands to United States) - Assessing the stiffness of healthy and asthmatic lung tissue using atomic force microscopy microindentation
• GEMA SANCHEZ HELGUERA (Spain to Netherlands) - Role of microRNAs as potential biomarkers and therapeutic targets in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
• Alexandra SCHRODER (Germany to United States) - Immunomodulatory Role of IL-37 in Asthma Pathogenesis
• Katarzyna WOJCIK-PSZCZOLA (Poland to Netherlands) - The effect of newly synthesized PDE3/4 inhibitors on airway smooth muscle cells function in asthma

Cofunded Short-Term Research Fellowship 2016/2017

• ERS/EMBO: Andreas Fløe HVASS (Denmark to Italy) - Deciphering the CD8+ T-cell response to latent-phase Mycobacterium Tuberculosis antigens 

RESPIRE3 Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellowship recipients – 1st round 

• Eva Maria GARRIDO-MARTIN (United Kingdom to Spain)  - Integrating tumour molecular profiling and immune landscape in human Non-Small-Cell-Lung-Carcinoma (NSCLC)
• Marcel KWIATKOWSKI (Germany to Netherlands)  - “Proteomics-based Pharmacological Biochemistry (P2B2)” - A strategy to identify protein species and signaling pathways regulating inflammatory responses of pulmonary macrophages in NFκB-mediated inflammation and COPD.
• Célina RODA (France to Spain)  - Lung function growth and physical activity in children 
• Sara ROLANDSSON ENES (Sweden to USA + return phase)  - MSC polarisation towards a disease-specific anti-inflammatory phenotype in severe inflammatory lung disorders
• Imran SATIA (United Kingdom to Canada + return phase)  - Neuro-Immune Interactions in Asthma: Insights from the Study of Cough
• Marcin SKRZYPSKI (Poland to United Kingdom)  - Exploration of intratumour heterogeneity (ITH) for identification of novel prognostic markers for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients.

Fellowships Programme on Guideline Methodology (2016-2017)

• Michele HILTON BOON (United Kingdom)
• Dmitry PONOMAREV (Russia)

ERS offers this programme with NICE and COCHRANE.

Clinical Training Fellowship recipients 2016/2017

• Dmytro BUTOV (Ukraine to Spain) - New molecular laboratory methods in the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis
• Dzmitry KATOVICH (Belarus to France) - Video-assisted thoracic surgery
• Rosa Maria ORTIZ COMINO (United Kingdom to Spain) - Interventional Bronchoscopy