Dr Yvan Jamilloux, France; Dr Inês João da Silva Chora, Portugal; and Dr Rodrigo Liberal Portugal.
The FDIME Research Grants Selection Board Chaired by Prof Loic Guillevin considered several excellent candidates who had submitted rare disease research projects. Ultimately 3 were selected.
At the ECIM Congress in Prague, 2 October 2013 Prof Daniel Sereni (FDIME President) gave the FDIME 10th Anniversary talk during the Congress Opening Ceremony. This was followed by 3 FDIME Research Grant awards presented by Prof Loic Guillevin, Chairman of the Research Grant Selection Board to:- Yvan Jamilloux, France (€ 20,000); Inês João da Silva Chora, Portugal (€ 10,000); and Rodrigo Liberal, Portugal (€ 20,000).
Dr Yvan Jamilloux carried out his research at The Department of Biochemistry, University of Lausanne, Switzerland over a period of 1 year.
Project: ‘Functional analysis of macrophage inflammasomes in patients with Adult-Onset Still’s disease’.
Publication reference for the outcome of this research:
Treatment of adult-onset Still’s disease: a review. Authors: Yvan Jamilloux, Mathieu Gerfaud-Valentin, Thomas Henry, Pascal Sève. Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management 2015:11 33–43
Dr Inês João da Silva Chora carried out her research at The Division of Rheumatology, Internal Medicine Dept, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy over a period of 6 months.
Project: ‘Systemic sclerosis – Exploring new angiogenic biomarkers. Prognostic value of Neuropilin 1 and Class 3 Semaphorins as endothelial damage biomarkers’
Publication reference for the outcome of this research:
The abstract of the original publication of Dr Ines Chora’s work in Annals of Rheumatic diseases is available at Annals of Rheumatic Diseases. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2015-207483
Dr Rodrigo Liberal carried out his research at The Institute of Liver Studies and Transplantation, King’s College Hospital, London, UK over a period of 1 year.
Project: ‘Analysis of CD4+Tim-3+ effectors in autoimmune hepatitis and role in disease pathogenesis’
Publication reference for the outcome of this research is awaited.