Abstract Grants and Sponsorships 2015
ERS Best Abstract Grant for Healthy Lungs for Life
1 prize of €2,000
Healthy Lung For Life initiative (ELF) "Healthy Lungs for Life" 2015 theme is the role of physical activity in lung health.
The ceremony for this grant will take place during Assembly 6 members' meeting "Occupation and epidemiology" on Monday 28 September from 13:00 in Room 4.1.
Maia Smith (Neuherberg, Germany) for the abstract "Does physical activity affect spirometric indices in lung-healthy adolescents? Results from the GINIplus & LISAplus birth cohorts" to be presented on Monday 28 September 2015, during the Oral Presentation "Respiratory health across the life course" from 10:45 in Room 4.1.
ERS Grant for Best Abstracts in Rehabilitation and Chronic Care
1st prize €1,250, 2nd prize €750 and 3 prizes of €375
Financially supported by Invacare. Authors are listed alphabetically.
Fanny WS Ko (New Territories, Hong Kong) for the abstract "Comprehensive care programme for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) - A randomized controlled trial (RCT)".
Kathryn McDowell (Belfast, United Kingdom) for the the abstract "The REVIVE study: A randomised controlled trial of the effect of a programme of exercise on physical function in survivors of critical illness after discharge from the intensive care unit"
Mariana Sponholz Araujo (Sao Paulo, Brazil) for the abstract "Evaluation of the impact of a pulmonary rehabilitation program on exercise capacity in LAM"
Charlotte Suppli Ulrik (Hvidovre, Denmark) for the abstract "Effect of telehealthcare on exacerbations and hospital admissions in COPD: A randomised controlled trial"
Maroula Vasilopoulou (Athens, Greece) for the abstract "Effectiveness of home tele-rehabilitation on functional capacity and daily physical activity in COPD patients"
These abstracts will compete onsite during the session "Best abstracts in pulmonary rehabilitation and chronic care" http://k4.ersnet.org/prod/v2/Front/Program/Session?e=5&session=3617
ERS Interventional Pulmonology Travel Grant
2 prizes of €1,000
Financially supported by Olympus Europa Holding GmbH
Julia D'Hooghe (Amsterdam, Netherlands) for the abstract "Bronchial wall thickness assessed by optical coherence tomography (OCT) before and after bronchial thermoplasty (BT)". Her abstract will be presented in the session: Bronchoscopic treatment of emphysema and asthma: what is new?
Youbing Yin (Coralville, United States) for the abstract "Regional fissure integrity analysis for improved prediction of endobronchial valve lung volume reduction therapy". His abstract will be presented in the session: Bronchoscopic treatment of emphysema and asthma: what is new?
ERS Grant for the Best Abstract in Noninvasive Ventilatory Support
1 prize of €1,000
Financially supported by Breas
Anne-Kathrin Brill (Bern, Switzerland) for the abstract "Randomised crossover trial of a pressure sensing visual feedback system to improve mask fitting in non-invasive ventilation (NIV)". Her abstract will be presented in the session "Noninvasive ventilation in acute respiratory failure: the recipe for success".
ERS Excellence Grant in Clinical Physiology and Exercise
1 prize of €1,500
Financially supported by MGC Diagnostics
Ane Arbillaga-Etxarri (Barcelona, Spain) for the abstract "Reference equations for incremental shuttle walk test in Spanish population". The abstract will be presented in the session "Unravelling the mechanisms of symptoms and exercise limitationas in disease".
ERS Travel Grant for the Best Abstract in Clinical Physiology and Exercise
1 prize of €1,500
Financially supported by COSMED
Bruno-Pierre Dubé (Paris, France) for the abstract "Reliability of diaphragm ultrasound to detect diaphragm dysfunction in critically ill patients". His abstract will be presented in the session "Dyspnoea and respiratory muscle mechanics dysfunction in disease".
ERS Travel Grant for Sleep Medicine
3 prizes of €1000
Financially supported by Weinmann
Elizabeth A. Hill (Edinburgh, United Kingdom) for the abstract "A prospective, randomised, controlled trial of CPAP in adults with Down syndrome". Her abstract will be presented in the session "Comorbidities in sleep-disordered breathing and sleep-disordered breathing as a comorbidity".
Aleksandra Piechuta (Warsaw, Poland) for the abstract "OSA complication score as novel reference to assess systemic inflammation in sleep apnoea". Her abstract will be presented in the session "Paediatric and adult sleep-disordered breathing: from inflammation to treatment and telemedicine".
Susanna SS Ng (Hong Kong, Hong Kong) for the abstract "A randomized controlled study to examine the effect of lifestyle modification program in obstructive sleep apnea". Her abstract will be presented in the session "To treat or not to treat, and how? Sleep-disordered breathing I".
ERS Grant for Best Abstract in Paediatric Respiratory Epidemiology
2 prizes of €1,000
Financially supported by Abdi Ibrahim
Panayiotis Kouis (Limassol, Cyprus) for the abstract "Diagnostic accuracy of nasal nitric oxide measurement for establishing diagnosis of primary ciliary dyskinesia: A systematic review and meta-analysis". His abstract will be presented in the session "Highlights in paediatric epidemiology: air pollution, asthma and primary ciliary dyskinesia".
Maja Popovic (Turin, Italy) for the abstract "Infant weight trajectories and early childhood wheezing: The NINFEA birth cohort study". Her abstract will be presented in the session "Highlights in paediatric epidemiology: air pollution, asthma and primary ciliary dyskinesia".
ERS Young Researcher Grant: Respiratory Infection Aetiological Diagnosis
1 prize of €1,500
Financially supported by Thermofisher
Alison Dicker (Dundee, United Kingdom) for the abstract "Preliminary data from a longitudinal study of the airway microbiome in COPD". Her abstract will be presented in the session "Infection in COPD: different aspects of the host/pathogen balance".
ERS Grant for Best Abstract in Bacterial Pneumonia
1 prize of €1,500
Financially supported by Basilea Pharmaceutica Ltd.
Rosanel Amaro (Barcelona, Spain) for the abstract "Characterization of pulmonary function and mechanics in a novel model of pneumococcal pneumonia". Her abstract will be presented in the session "Prognostic factors in pneumonia: from clinical observations to experimental models".
ERS Grant for the Best Non-CF Bronchiectasis Abstract
1 prize of €1,500
Financially supported by Bayer Pharma AG
Pieter Goeminne (Leuven, Belgium) for the abstract "The impact of acute air pollution fluctuations on non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis pulmonary exacerbations: A case-crossover analysis". His abstract will be presented in the session "Bronchiectasis and NTM infections: clinical aspects and research outlook".
ERS Travel Grant for ALAT delegates
ERS supported the grants of the following abstract's authors
- Rodolfo P Vieira (São Paulo, Brazil)
Arturo Cortes (Mexico City, Mexico)
ERS Travel Grant for APSR delegates
ERS supported the grants of the following abstract's authors
- Taiki Furukawa (Seto, Japan) for the abstract "Scoring system predicting for elevation of MPAP in IPF"
Yuxiu Connie Xia (Parkville, Australia) for the abstract "Respiratory syncytial virus induces glucocorticoid insensitivity"
ERS Travel Grant JRS delegates
ERS supported supported the registration of the following abstract's authors:
- Hirohisa Kano (Ogaki, Japan) for the abstract "The effect of additional use of short-acting beta2 agonist on exercise tolerance in patients with COPD on regular long-acting bronchodilators treatments"
- Ryogo Ema (Chiba, Japan) for the abstract "Ratio of pulmonary arterial to aortic diameter and right to left ventricular diameter associate with poor outcome in medically-treated chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension"
- Manabu Hayama (Tokyo, Japan) for the abstract "Complications with endobronchial ultrasound with a guide sheath for peripheral pulmonary lesions"
- Keisuke Anan (Kumamoto, Japan) for the abstract "Drug-associated acute respiratory distress syndrome: A prospective observational cohort study"
- Hiroyoshi Yamauchi (Tochigi, Japan) for the abstract "Clinical course and changes in high-resolution computed tomography findings in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis without honeycombing"
- Yuki Ko (Iizuka, Japan) for the abstract "The large airway lesions of lymphangioleiomyomatosis: Pathological and Radiological analysis"
- Yuko Kureya (Osaka, Japan) for the abstract "Global gene expression analyses highlight the role of plasma membrane remodeling as a molecular functions of airway epithelium in response to interleukin-13 treatment"
- Sotaro Shikano (Itabashi-ku,Tokyo, Japan) for the abstract "Exosomal messenger RNAs in the airway are potential biomarkers for acute lung injury in mice"
- Katsuhiro Onodera (Sendai, Japan) for the abstract "Decreased levels of bis-S-bimane in exhaled breath condensate of COPD"
Keisuke Naito (Fukuoka, Japan) for the abstract "The bacteriological incidence of lung abscess using clone library analysis of 16S rRNA gene in bronchoalveolar lavage"
ERS Travel Grant for SEPAR delegates
ERS supported the registration of the abstract's authors:
- David Bravo Blanco (Spain)
- Francisco Jose Dasì Fernandez (Spain)
ERS Young Scientists 2015
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Muhammad Abdullah |
James Hill |
Tichanon Promsrisuk |
ERS Gold Sponsored Delegates 2015
| Gamal Agmy Zahra Aryan Ankit Bhatia Dmytro Butov Rosarito Coronel Rahul Kodgule Nataliia Kravchenko Ming Liu Lian Liu Kuldeep Mandani |
Branislava Milenkovic Aliae Mohamed-Hussein Khatereh Mousavi-Fatemi Chirine Moussa Lilit Nersisyan Ambreen Sahito Mrityunjaya Singh Kiril Terziyski Lucretia Udrescu Ferdaous Yangui |
ERS Silver Sponsored Delegates 2015
| Ayodele Akinremi Tatiana Aksenova Aliina Altymysheva Goran Andonovski Samira Aouadi Larissa Araújo de Castro Zeynep Aribas Onur Aydogdu Mohamed Badawy Artur Badyda Radhika Banka Stefan Bilha Radoslav Bilyukov Tetiana Bondarenko Mohammad Hossein Boskabady M. Cebanu Nanca Cebron Lipovec Poulomi Chatterjee Ana Paula Coelho Figueira Freire Andreea Codruta Coman Débora Rafaelli De Carvalho Diego De Sa Coutinho Ivana Djuric-Filipovic Rana El-Helbawy Yaser Elkelhy Abd Elmonem Elshabrawi |
Nagehan Emiralioglu Sergey Fedosenko Josiane Marques Felcar Martyna Filipska Baishakhi Ghosh Julia Gianjoppe-Santos Yasemin Gokdemir Felicia Gradinariu Branislav S. Gvozdenovic Ali Hasan Mustafa Hassan Zahra Hessami Deimante Hoppenot Farah Idrees Daniella Insuela Varuna Jethani Dingyuan Jiang Farzaneh Ketabchi Ikbel Khalfallah Anna Khomenya Vira Khorunzhaya Deniz Kizilirmak Tuba Kockar Ivan Kremis |
Marina Labor Amina M.S. Lima Tamara Milosavljevic Mohammadreza Modaresi Igor Moraes Andrea A. Morita Malika Mustafina Ilknur Naz Balram Neupane Kharevich Olga Galina Orlova Buse Ozcan Ismail Ozsoy Özge Öztürk Thaís Paes Georgy Pakhomov Lancelot Pinto Ewa Pniewska Vitalii Poberezhets Beata Poplawska-Wisniewska Srilata Puru Naik Rama Satyanarayana Raju Marceli Rocha Leite Carlos E. Rodriguez-Martinez |
Abdulsamet Sandal Pauliane V. Santana Anastasiia Savytska Ines Sfaxi D.K. Shah Manish Sharma Ivan Shishimorov Naseh Sigari Senem Simsek Houda Snène Ghassen Soussi Bruna Spolador de Alencar Silva Kseniia Sytnyk Tanya Tacheva Fatma Tokgöz Akyil Onur Turan Zeynep Pelin Ugras Mariia V. Vasileva Luciana Vieira Changhui Wang Li-Hua Wu Rafaella Fagundes Xavier Dong Yang Jian Zhou Letícia Zumpano Cardenas |