ERS Fellowship Recipients 2017-2018

Kshitij AGARWAL (India to Italy)
Evaluating the utility of endobronchial valves in the management of tubercular pulmonary cavities
Michele ARIGLIANI (Italy to London)
Evaluation of respiratory impairment in subjects with sickle cell anemia using multiple breath washout
Remi COUDROY (France to Canada)
BEARDS (Incidence of dyssynchronous spontaneous Breathing Effort, breath-stacking and reverse triggering in early Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome)
Slaven CRNKOVIC (Austria to USA)
Elucidating the variation in smooth muscle cell subpopulations during pulmonary vascular remodelling
Ahmed EDRIS MOHAMED (Egypt to Belgium)
Effect of two recently discovered single nucleotide polymorphisms on the response to inhaled corticosteroids in adult asthma
Rosalie Linssen (Netherlands to United States)
Effects of NETs on airway mucus and epithelium
Mathieu MARILLIER (France to Canada)
Exercise-related hypoxemia in chronic fibrosing interstitial lung diseases: does O2 supplementation improve locomotor muscle fatigue?
Laurent RENESME (France to Canada)
Resident lung Endothelial Colony Forming Cells (ECFCs): function and therapeutic potential in neonatal lung hypoplasia.
Esther Irene SCHWARZ (Switzerland to United Kingdom)
Pathophysiology of obstructive sleep apnoea recurrence during continuous positive airway pressure therapy withdrawal
David DONAIRE-GONZALEZ(Spain to Netherlands)

ERS/ALAT: Maria Paola ARELLANO-MARIC (Chile to Germany)
The Debated Role of Sleep Studies in Patients under Established Home Mechanical Ventilation
ERS/DZL: Magdalena WUJAK (Poland to Germany)
Role of AK4 in AMPK/HIF-1α signaling in regulation of metabolic reprogramming – impact on development of pulmonary hypertension including the cancer theory of pulmonary arterial hypertension
ERS/EMBO: Sally YUNSUN KIM (Australia to UK)
REpaiR3: REgeneration, REcovery and REstoration of Lung Function

This initiative is offered in collaboration with Novartis and is based in Basel, Switzerland.

Maria Rosa FANER (Spain to United States)
Multi-level data integration to approach the heterogeneity of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Oriol SIBILA (Spain to United States)
Tackling Disease Heterogeneity in Bronchiectasis: The EMBARC-BRIDGE study
Federica TRUCCO (Italy to Netherlands)
Respiratory muscle strength tests as predictors of hypoventilation in neuromuscular children
Giuseppe CICERO (Italy to UK)
Validation of bi-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) Fourier Decomposition (FD) as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) technique to assess lung ventilation and perfusion compared to computed tomography (CT), Hyperpolarised gases (HP-MRI) and Contrast-Enhanced MRI (CE-MRI).
Luca GIORDANO (Finland to Germany)
Therapeutic mRNA species encoding alternative oxidase (AOX) to prevent acute hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction (HPV)
Canan DEMIR (Turkey to Belgium)
The Lymphocyte Proliferation Test (LPT) to Assess the Immunotoxicity of Silica Nanoparticles
Laura Moschino (Italy to United Kingdom)
Pharmacokinetics, effectiveness and mid-term outcomes of very early caffeine citrate in extremely preterm infants
Amany ELBEHAIRY (Egypt to United Kingdom)
Peripheral and Cardiac Muscles Abnormalities in Smokers with Mild Airway Obstruction: Implication for Exercise Intolerance
Paul BRINKMAN (Netherlands to United Kingdom)
Real-time detection of novel inflammatory biomarkers in asthma and COPD

Serena DI VINCENZO (Italy to Netherlands)
Role of cellular senescence in epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in COPD
Pawan SHARMA (Australia to Switzerland)
Investigating mechanisms by which autophagy and RNF145 may regulate lung growth and development
Anand Kumar ANDIAPPAN (Simgapore to Sweden)
Integrating whole blood microRNA and mRNA expression to identify human gene regulatory networks for asthma and lung function in adolescence
Carmen VEITH (Netherlands to Germany)
Towards personalized medicine in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis by screening exhaled volatiles in patients’ bronchial epithelial cells
Ashley SULLIVAN (Ireland to UK)
Advanced primary airway epithelial cell culture and the role of microbial metabolites
Stephen DOLAN (UK to US)
A Clash of Kingdoms in the Cystic Fibrosis Lung: Elucidating the genetic basis of the interspecies interactions between Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Aspergillus fumigatus
Myrofora GOUTAKI (Switzerland to UK)
Identifying knowledge gaps for primary ciliary dyskinesia research: combining experts’ and patients’ perspective
Mahesh Manjunath Gouda (India to Germany)
Development of a pre-clinical ex vivo validation tool for the confirmation of hits from a high-throughput drug screening assay in IPF

ERS/TTS: Grace COOPER(UK to Australia)
Understanding the role of lung-resident Natural Killer (NK) cells in COPD pathogenesis
ERS/EMBO: Veronica ALFIERI (Italy to UK)
Chronic pulmonary aspergillosis in sarcoidosis: investigation into macrophage immune defects in response to Aspergillus fumigatus

Aideen ALLEN (Ireland to France)
From environmental bacteria to obligate pathogen: the study of adaptations enhancing the virulence of tuberculosis bacilli
Sabine BARTEL (Germany to Netherlands)
Generating episomes - design and targeted delivery of epigenetic editors to the human lung epithelium in COPD by extracellular vesicles
Cristina LONGO (Canada to Netherlands)
Understanding the obese-asthma phenotype: identifying potential mechanisms predictive of asthma treatment response in children with excess weight
Louise ORGAN (Australia to United Kingdom)
Using organoids to understand how AKAP13 regulates integrin-mediate mechanotransduction signalling to promote pulmonary fibrosis
Sinem TAS (Netherlands to Sweden)
3D bioprinted smart hydrogel for lung tissue engineering
Atul VASHIST (India to United Kingdom)
Deciphering the molecular determinants of mycobacterial persistence through genetic screens in various dormancy models using CRISPR-Cas9 technology

ERS offers this programme in collaboration with NICE and COCHRANE.

Dmytro BUTOV (Ukraine to Spain)
To gain experience on the management, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of TB, especially M/XDR TB
Olalla CASTRO AÑON (Spain to United Kingdom)
Local Anaesthetic Thoracoscopy
DESPO IERODIAKONOU (Greece to United Kingdom)
Medical history & diagnosis of allergic/asthma patient , allergy testing, spirometry, challenge testing, rhinoscopy, allergy management immunotherapy
Carlo De Pieri (Italy to France)
Flexible bronchoscopy in children