The following ESCMID members have received a Research Grant in 2011 for the indicated project.

Alain Bizzini

Institute of Microbiology, University Hospital Center Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Project: Study of the emergence and evolution of antibiotic heteroresistance by microcalorimetry in an experimental model of foreign-body infection

Dafne Bongiorno

Department of Microbiology, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Project: Non-mutational resistance to linezolid: characterisation of the plasmid-mediated methyltransferase cfr gene

Alessandra Bragonzi

San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy

Project: Tracking down virulence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa during chronic infection

Matthijs Christian Brouwer

Department of Neurology, Center of Infection and Immunity Amsterdam, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Project: The plasminogen system in bacterial meningitis

Paola Brun

Department of Histology, Microbiology and Medical Biotechnologies, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

Project: Molecular mechanisms of neurotropic virus-mediated neuropathies in the gut

Sergio Filipe

Academic and Projects Office, Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica e Biologica, Oeiras, Portugal

Project: Identification of bacterial cell wall components that interfere with peptidoglycan recognition by the host

Helen Louisa Leavis

Medical Microbiology, UMC Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Project: Pathogenesis of Enterococcus faecium biofilm formation

Paolo Miotto

Emerging Bacterial Pathogens Unit, Division of Immunology, Transplantation and Infectious Diseases, Fondazione Centro San Raffaele del Monte Tabor, Milan, Italy

Project: The role of small RNAs in the stress response of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Mariana Pinho

Academic and Projects Office, Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica e Biologica, Oeiras, Portugal

Project: Study of the realtime response of individual Staphylococcus aureus cells to the presence of cell wall active antibiotics

Andreas Reisner

Biomedical Science, University of Applied Sciences, Graz, Austria

Project: Prevalence and spread of bacterial silver resistance

Thamarai Schneiders

Centre for Infection and Immunity, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

Project: The frontline defense: sRNA-mediated mechanisms in antibiotic resistance

Roy Sleator

Biological Sciences, Cork Institute of Technology, Cork, Ireland

Project: Development of a novel immunoprophylaxis strategy for controlling Campylobacter jejuni

Pierre Smeesters

Bacterial Genetics and Physiology Laboratory, Free University of Brussels, Gosselies, Belgium

Project: Host-pathogen interactions in a highly necrotising group A Streptococcus isolate

Eveline Snelders

Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Project: The tandem repeat as a resistance mechanism in human and plant pathogenic fungi

Rita Sobral

Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica e Biologica, Oeiras, Portugal

Project: The association of extracellular DNA to the Staphylococcus aureus surface: roles and mechanisms

Andrew James Stewardson

Infection Control Program, University of Geneva Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland

Project: The household microbiome: a prospective observational study investigating household clustering of oral and intestinal microbiota and the impact of oral antibiotic exposure

Ronald van Rij

Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Project: A high-throughput screen to identify small molecule inhibitors of Dengue virus

Nicolas Veziris

Laboratoire de bactériologie, UPMC, Paris, France

Project: In vivo evaluation of the benefit of adding moxifloxacin to drug regimens used against extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis