ESPID Fellowships 1999-2024

ESPID

Evaluation of Garenoxacin (BMS-284756) and Moxifloxacin in Experimental Meningitis Caused by Vancomycin-Tolerant Pneumococci

ESPID

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection prevents allergic sensitization, airway eosinophilia and airway hyperresponsiveness

ESPID

Q fever in children: epidemiology, sources of infection, clinical spectrum and inflammatory response

ESPID

Pneumococcal choline binding protein A (CbpA): investigation of potential as a mucosal vaccine in children and of pro-inflammatory and adjuvants effects

Wyeth

The molecular pathogenesis of acute rheumatic fever

ESPID

Developement of case definitions for adverse events following immunisation (AEFI) - enhancing the compatibility of vaccine safety data

Wyeth

Modulation of antigen presenting (dendritic) cell function by mucosal pneumococcal protein vaccines – human studies in vitro

Wyeth

Comparison of novel immunodiagnostic techniques to diagnose childhood tuberculosis

ESPID

The Molecular Epidemiology of Varicella Zoster Virus in Europe: does the vaccine provide protection against European genotypes?

ESPID

Amniotic fluid, placental function and other perinatal determinants of RSV LRTI during early childhood

ESPID

The optimal management of acute otitis media

ESPID

Long-term follow-up of children with invasive Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) disease despite vaccination to determine genetic risk factors for vaccine failure using large-scale immunogenetics

Wyeth

A global gene expression study of the vitro host immune response to different strains of BCG vaccines

ESPID

Meningococcal immune evasion mechanisms & supression of cellular immune function

ESPID

The impact of human rhinovirus infection on upper and lower airway epithelial cells in the ontext of rhinovirus pathogenesis effects on antiviral and anti-flammatory activities and therapeutic implications

Wyeth

Antimicrobial prescribing in European children (APEC) 2007

ESPID

A mother/infant study of immune responses to mycobacterial antigens

ESPID

Early diagnosis of serious bacterial infection in children presenting with fever

Wyeth

Fungal pathogenicity and innate host defence mechanism in chronic granulomatous disease

ESPID

Entitled ‘Distribution and circulation of antibiotic resistance and virulence determinants among oro-pharyngeal Streptococci’

ESPID

Colonization and infection of the respiratory tract by Mycoplasma pneumoniae in children

Wyeth

B-cell phenotype – a comparative study of the immune response to pneumococcal plain polysaccharide and 7- and 10-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccines

ESPID

Differences in pro- and anti-apoptotic signaling programs induced by Group B Streptococcal cell wall in macrophages and microglia

ESPID

Novel biomarkers of tuberculosis: Genome-wide analysis for the expression in active and latent tuberculosis

ESPID

Prediction rules for serious bacterial infection in febrile children at the emergency department: a framework for development, croos  validation, updating and impact analysis

Wyeth

The rich focus in tuberculosis meningitis: from patholgy to mathematics

ESPID

Childhood TB – a new acquired immune deficiency syndrome? 

ESPID

Implementation of a VAP prevention bundle and antimicrobial stewardship in PICU

ESPID Foundation

The effects of live attenuated trivalent intranasal influenza vaccine on the nasal bacterial colonization of healthy children aged 2-5 years

ESPID

ESCapeTB project (Environmental Surveillance in Canada and Cape Town – improving our understanding of Airborne Pathogen Exposure with a focus on Transmission of rod-shaped (myco-)Bacteria)

ESPID

Analysis of the phenomenon of autoagglutination and complement resistance in Moraxella catarrhalis

ESPID

Immunology of RSV Infection in Children 

ESPID

A Metabolomics-Based Investigation to Antifungal Therapy against Candida albicans 

ESPID

Investigating the immunological basis for the heterologous (‘non-specific’) effects of BCG immunization in infants

ESPID

Effect of a nutritional intervention on the intestinal microbiota, inflammation/immunoactivation and vaccine response in vertically HIV-infected children

ESPID

Understanding macrophage regulatory pathways in infant vulnerability to tuberculosis

ESPID

Circulating antibody-‐secreting cells (ASCs) during Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia in childhood: role in pathogenesis and diagnosis?

ESPID

Dynamics of Streptococcus pneumoniae colonization in children with acute otitis media -A modern analysis with whole genome sequencing

ESPID

How does the gut-microbiota influence the onset and nature of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis?

ESPID

Infection prevention and immune modulation by bacterial lysates: gaining insight into the mechanism of an old therapy.

ESPID

The influence of the intestinal microbiota on vaccine responses in the first year of life

ESPID

Mycobiome dynamics in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia

ESPID

Use of the viral-vectored vaccine technology to investigate the poor persistence of antibodies against pertussis vaccine antigens by comparison with the current vaccines and to inform the design of novel vaccine candidates

ESPID

Exhaled breath analysis to distinguish viral from bacterial aetiology of lower respiratory tract infections in children

ESPID

System Analysis Study Of The Infant Immune System

ESPID

Evaluation of the relationship between pneumococcal colonisation density in 2-year-old children and rates of transmission to family contacts using live attenuated intranasal influenza vaccine as a probe. A randomised prospective stepped-wedge multicentre study.

Seqirus

Mucosal IgA profiling in Pediatric Influenza

ESPID

 

No award given this year

ESPID

 Joanna Papadatou

 

Systems Analysis Of Immunity To Pneumococcal Vaccination In Preterm And Full-Term Infants: The Potential Of Personalised Vaccinology For Children At Risk

2021-2023 

 ESPID

Unravelling the role of antibiotic selective pressure on pneumococcal serotype replacement.

 ESPID

Establishment of an ex vivo method to identify preterm newborns with a hyperinflammatory immune fingerprint

 2022-2025

ESPID

The effect of co-infections on the performance of host-based tests for paediatric TB diagnosis

ESPID

Characterising the differences in Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination-induced immune responses between infants and adults

ESPID

Child-friendly diagnostics through non-invasive biomarker analysis coupled to biosensors in tuberculosis

 2023-2026

 ESPID

 DropTB - Diagnostic decision algorithms for paediatric TB

 ESPID

 Immunisation of Children and Adolescents against COVID-19: Immunogenicity and Reactogenicity of Heterologous and Fractional Dose COVID-19 Vaccine Schedules 

 ESPID

 Susceptibility to West Nile virus neuroinvasive disease in children