William MacNee, ERS President 2006–2007
ERS COPD Research Award 2007
Dr Morten Dahl, Herlev University Hospital Copenhagen, Denmark, and Simonetta Baraldo, Padova, Italy, won this year’s annual awards of The European Respiratoy Society (ERS), which are sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim, for their pulmonology-research of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).
The ERS COPD Research Award, sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim with an entire amount of 50,000 Euro, honors the research results of European ERS members active in pulmonology research.
For assessment of risk for COPD in individuals with increased systemic inflammation and less severe alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency Dr Morten Dahl won the first prize of 30,000 Euro. Serum CRP is a strong predictor of future COPD in individuals with airway obstruction. He tested if increased serum CRP could be used for prediction of future risk of hospitalization and death from COPD.
Simonetta Baraldo won the second prize for investigating the relation between excessive inflammatory response and functional abnormalities in asthma and COPD. Her work focusses on the expression of metalloproteinases in patients with COPD at different stages of disease severity to evaluate their role in the progression of the disease.
"On behalf of the ERS, I would like to congratulate Morten Dahl and Simonetta Baraldo on their outstanding work and their highly deserved awards", said William MacNee, ERS President. "May I also take this opportunity to remind all our members that the ERS COPD Award is an ongoing initiative. The application for next year's award are open now and we look forward to many submissions from young researchers next year", the ERS President concluded.
This article was published on 09/19/2007
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