ESPID Fellowships 1999-2023

Year
Applicant
Project title
1999
ESPID
Violeta Rodriguez-Cerrato
Evaluation of Garenoxacin (BMS-284756) and Moxifloxacin in Experimental Meningitis Caused by Vancomycin-Tolerant Pneumococci
2000
ESPID
Louis Bont
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection prevents allergic sensitization, airway eosinophilia and airway hyperresponsiveness
2001-2003
ESPID
Helena Maltezou
Q fever in children: epidemiology, sources of infection, clinical spectrum and inflammatory response
2002-2004
ESPID
Jolanta Bernatoniene
Pneumococcal choline binding protein A (CbpA): investigation of potential as a mucosal vaccine in children and of pro-inflammatory and adjuvants effects
2003-2005
Wyeth
Penelope Bryant
The molecular pathogenesis of acute rheumatic fever
ESPID
Terhi Tapiainen
Developement of case definitions for adverse events following immunisation (AEFI) - enhancing the compatibility of vaccine safety data
2004-2006
Wyeth
Linda Bagrade
Modulation of antigen presenting (dendritic) cell function by mucosal pneumococcal protein vaccines – human studies in vitro
2005-2007
Wyeth
Tom Connell
Comparison of novel immunodiagnostic techniques to diagnose childhood tuberculosis
ESPID
Nitu Sengupta
The Molecular Epidemiology of Varicella Zoster Virus in Europe: does the vaccine provide protection against European genotypes?
ESPID
Michiel Houben
Amniotic fluid, placental function and other perinatal determinants of RSV LRTI during early childhood
ESPID
Aino Ruohola
The optimal management of acute otitis media
ESPID
Shamez Ladhani
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
2006-2008
Wyeth
Nicole Ritz
A global gene expression study of the vitro host immune response to different strains of BCG vaccines
ESPID
Michiel van der Flier
Meningococcal immune evasion mechanisms & supression of cellular immune function
ESPID
Chrysanthi Skevaki
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
2007-2009
Wyeth
Nikos Spyridis
Antimicrobial prescribing in European children (APEC) 2007
ESPID
Christine Jones
A mother/infant study of immune responses to mycobacterial antigens
ESPID
Marc Tebrügge
Early diagnosis of serious bacterial infection in children presenting with fever
2008-2009
Wyeth
Stefanie Henriet
Fungal pathogenicity and innate host defence mechanism in chronic granulomatous disease
ESPID
Pierre Smeesters
Entitled ‘Distribution and circulation of antibiotic resistance and virulence determinants among oro-pharyngeal Streptococci’
ESPID
Annemarie van Rossum 
Colonization and infection of the respiratory tract by Mycoplasma pneumoniae in children
2009-2011
Wyeth
Johannes Trück
B-cell phenotype – a comparative study of the immune response to pneumococcal plain polysaccharide and 7- and 10-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccines
ESPID
Julia Wennekamp
Differences in pro- and anti-apoptotic signaling programs induced by Group B Streptococcal cell wall in macrophages and microglia
2010-2012
ESPID
Virginia Amanatidou
Novel biomarkers of tuberculosis: Genome-wide analysis for the expression in active and latent tuberculosis
ESPID
Rianne Oostenbrick
Prediction rules for serious bacterial infection in febrile children at the emergency department: a framework for development, croos  validation, updating and impact analysis
Wyeth
Martijn Van der Kuip
The rich focus in tuberculosis meningitis: from patholgy to mathematics
2011-2013
ESPID
Ulrich von Both 
Childhood TB – a new acquired immune deficiency syndrome? 
ESPID
Elias Iosifidis
Implementation of a VAP prevention bundle and antimicrobial stewardship in PICU
ESPID Foundation
Valtyr S. Thors
The effects of live attenuated trivalent intranasal influenza vaccine on the nasal bacterial colonization of healthy children aged 2-5 years
2012-2014
ESPID
Koen Vanden Driessche
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)
2013-2015
ESPID
Sara Bernhard- Stirnemenn
Analysis of the phenomenon of autoagglutination and complement resistance in Moraxella catarrhalis
ESPID
Santtu Heinonen
Immunology of RSV Infection in Children 
2014-2016
ESPID
Aspasia Katragkou
A Metabolomics-Based Investigation to Antifungal Therapy against Candida albicans 
ESPID
Bridget Joan Freyne
Investigating the immunological basis for the heterologous (‘non-specific’) effects of BCG immunization in infants
ESPID
Talia Sainz Costa
Effect of a nutritional intervention on the intestinal microbiota, inflammation/immunoactivation and vaccine response in vertically HIV-infected children
2015-2017
ESPID
Anu Goenka
Understanding macrophage regulatory pathways in infant vulnerability to tuberculosis
ESPID
Patrick Meyer Sauteur
Circulating antibody-‐secreting cells (ASCs) during Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia in childhood: role in pathogenesis and diagnosis?
ESPID
Paula Tähtinen
Dynamics of Streptococcus pneumoniae colonization in children with acute otitis media -A modern analysis with whole genome sequencing
2016-2018
ESPID
Paula Sanchez
How does the gut-microbiota influence the onset and nature of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis?
ESPID
Gerdien Tramper-Stranders
Infection prevention and immune modulation by bacterial lysates: gaining insight into the mechanism of an old therapy.
2017-2019
ESPID
Petra Zimmerman
The influence of the intestinal microbiota on vaccine responses in the first year of life
ESPID
Zoi Dorothea Pana
Mycobiome dynamics in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia
ESPID
Alexia Dierig
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
Koen van Aerde
Exhaled breath analysis to distinguish viral from bacterial aetiology of lower respiratory tract infections in children
2018-2020
ESPID
Virginia Ramos
System Analysis Study Of The Infant Immune System
ESPID
Jane Metz
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
Lily Verhagen
Mucosal IgA profiling in Pediatric Influenza
2019-2021
ESPID
 
No award given this year
2020-2022
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
Naim Ouldali
Unravelling the role of antibiotic selective pressure on pneumococcal serotype replacement.
 ESPID
Jop Jans
Establishment of an ex vivo method to identify preterm newborns with a hyperinflammatory immune fingerprint
 2022-2025
ESPID
Else Bijker
The effect of co-infections on the performance of host-based tests for paediatric TB diagnosis
ESPID
Christie Noble
Characterising the differences in Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination-induced immune responses between infants and adults
ESPID
Nina Vaezipour
Child-friendly diagnostics through non-invasive biomarker analysis coupled to biosensors in tuberculosis
 2023-2026
 ESPID
Laura Olbrich
 DropTB - Diagnostic decision algorithms for paediatric TB
 ESPID
Eimear Kelly
 Immunisation of Children and Adolescents against COVID-19: Immunogenicity and Reactogenicity of Heterologous and Fractional Dose COVID-19 Vaccine Schedules 
 ESPID
Inés Marín-Cruz
 Susceptibility to West Nile virus neuroinvasive disease in children