Dr. Astrid Crespo, assistant of the Pneumology Service of the Hospital de Sant Pau and member of the Chronic Respiratory Diseases Group (GREC) of the Institut d’Investigació Biomédica (IIB-Sant Pau), linked to the CIBERES of the Asthma group, was the winner in the Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) category of the IV AstraZeneca Foundation Young Researchers Awards. The award has been given for her research on neutrophilic asthma (AN), a serious disease that has no specific treatment.
Her research on neutrophilic asthma offers an opportunity to improve the knowledge of the physiopathological and cellular mechanisms involved in the AN in order to identify future therapeutic targets that allow the control of this disease until now without treatment. Dr. Crespo’s research, funded by the AstraZeneca Foundation, seeks to gain in-depth knowledge of the AN and to discover its clinical characteristics, its natural history and that of its subphenotypes, and to analyse the bronchial microbiological flora of these patients. In this way, a specific treatment for this disease could be developed.
The Young Researchers Awards promoted by the AstraZeneca Foundation, together with the Carlos III Health Institute, promote the scientific talent of researchers under the age of 40 in Spain.
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