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CfA news
The Centre for Allergy Research
Newsletter 21 December 2018
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The Centre for Allergy Research
wishes you
Happy Holidays
and a
Fantastic 2019!
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Åsa Wheelock
who was awarded a Consolidator Grant from the Swedish Medical Research Council, for the project:
"Sub-phenotypes of COPD: A systems biology framework to map out phenotypic and mechanistic sub-groups of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease among never-smokers"
The grant is worth a total of 10,4 million SEK, for a period of 6 years.
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Craig Wheelock
who was awarded a grant for a 3-year full-time researcher position (forskartjänst) from the Swedish Heart Lung Foundation, for the project:
"Integrating Metabolism ENvironment and Diet for sub-phenotyping of obstructive lung disease (iMEND)"
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Apostolos Bossios
who was awarded a grant for research months from the Swedish Heart Lung Foundation, for the project:
"Characterization of obesity and bronchiectasis as sub-phenotypes in severe asthma"
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Cilla Söderhäll
who was awarded a grant for research months from the Swedish Heart Lung Foundation, for the project:
"What makes preschool wheeze to become childhood asthma? - Development of dynamic ribonucleic acid biomarkers for diagnosis and prognosis"
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Upcoming CfA seminars
17th January 2019: Peter Howarth
The airway microbiome and severe asthma
Speaker: Prof. Peter Howarth, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton and NIHR Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, Southampton General Hospital, United Kingdom
Time: 16:00, 17th January 2018
Venue: Biomedicum Lecture Hall 4 (A0315), Entrance Level, Solnavägen 9, KI Campus Solna
Host: Sven-Erik Dahlén, Institute of Environmental Medicine
Coffee and tea served 15:30
21st February 2019: Brian Lipworth
Use of impulse oscillometry in asthma and COPD
Speaker: Prof. Brian Lipworth, Scottish Centre for Respiratory Research, Division of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, University of Dundee, United Kingdom
Time: 16:00, 21st February 2019
Venue: Biomedicum Lecture Hall 4 (A0315), Entrance Level, Solnavägen 9, KI Campus Solna
Host: Sven-Erik Dahlén, Institute of Environmental Medicine
Coffee and tea served 15:30
7th March 2019: Parameswaran Nair
Treating asthma using sputum cells and biomarkers for diagnosis and phenotyping
Speaker: Prof. Parameswaran Nair, Division of Respirology, Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health, St Joseph's Healthcare, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Time: 16:00, 7th March 2019
Venue: Biomedicum Lecture Hall 4 (A0315), Entrance Level, Solnavägen 9, KI Campus Solna
Host: Sven-Erik Dahlén, Institute of Environmental Medicine
Coffee and tea served 15:30
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Upcoming thesis defences in the
asthma and allergy area
22nd February 2019: Nikolaos Lazarinis
Dept. of Medicine Huddinge
Title: Bronchoprovocation studies to define mechanisms in asthma and airway inflammation
Main supervisor: Barbro Dahlén, Co-supervisors: Sven-Erik Dahlén, Craig Wheelock
Opponent: Professor Brian Lipworth, University of Dundee, Scottish Centre for Respiratory Research, Division of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, United Kingdom
Time: 9:00
Venue: Lecture Hall C1:87, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge
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Konsul Th C Bergh's Foundation invites to a scientific symposium 28th March:
Precision Medicine in Allergy and Asthma – New Possibilities?
Venue: Svenska Läkaresällskapet, Stockholm
Time: 28th March 9:15-16:30
Registration fee: 300 SEK
Internationally renowned researchers from Sweden and abroad will present and discuss the latest research findings in the area of precision medicine. On the speakers' list are, among others, Elisabeth Bel, Klaus Bønnelykke and Rudolf Valenta.
Organising committee: Gunilla Hedlin, Marianne van Hage, Arne Egesten and Lars Hellman
Symposium Precision Medicine in Allergy and Asthma - New Possibilities?
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Upcoming conferences and meetings
in the asthma and allergy area
18th Fraunhofer Seminar Translational Airway Research "Models of Lung Disease", 24-25 January 2019, Hannover, Germany
AAAAI Annual Meeting, 22-25 February 2019, San Francisco, USA
ERS Lung Science Conference "Mechanisms of acute exacerbation of respiratory disease", 7-10 March 2019, Estoril, Portugal
Lund Respiratory Network (LURN) Meeting "Inflammation in the lung", 21-22 March 2019, Ystad, Sweden
RHINA, European Rhinallergy Meeting, 21-23 March 2019, Eastbourne, United Kingdom
Konsul Th C Bergh's Foundation Scientific Symposium: Precision Medicine in Allergy and Asthma – New Possibilities?, 28 March 2018, Stockholm, Sweden
SAM, Skin Allergy Meeting, 4-6 April 2019, Munich, Germany
ATS Annual Conference, 17-22 May 2019, Dallas, USA
EAACI Annual Congress, 1-5 June 2019, Lisbon, Portugal
9th meeting of the European Mast Cell and Basophil Research Network (EMBRN), 17-19 June 2019, Uppsala, Sweden
ERS International Congress, 28 September-2 October 2019, Madrid, Spain
EAACI PAAM (Pediatric Allergy and Asthma Meeting), 17-19 October 2019, Florence, Italy
16th International Conference "Bioactive Lipids in Cancer, Inflammation and Related Diseases", 20-23 October 2019, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
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About the Centre for Allergy Research
The Centre for Allergy Research (CfA) is a centre of excellence at Karolinska Institutet. Our aim is to improve treatment and care of individuals with asthma and allergy. ki.se/cfa
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The Centre for Allergy Research / Centrum för Allergiforskning
Director: Sven-Erik Dahlén, Director Clinical Research: Gunilla Hedlin,
Project Manager: Roelinde Middelveld
kontakt: ki.se/cfa e-mail: cfa@imm.ki.se
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