2007 FAER Grant Recipient Publishes Research

Posted March 10, 2010

Hannah Wunsch, MD, MSc, received a Research Fellowship Grant from FAER in 2007 to study “Evaluation of Long-term Outcomes for Intensive Care Patients.” A paper related to her FAER research project was published in the March 3, 2010, edition of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association. To read the full text of Dr. Wunsch’s article, titled “Three-year Outcomes for Medicare Beneficiaries Who Survive Intensive Care,” go to http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/303/9/849.

FAER Grant Awardee Receives NIH Funding, Publishes Research Findings

Posted April 14, 2009

Holger K. Eltzschig, MD, PhD, received a FAER Mentored Research Training Grant in 2007 to fund his study, "Role of A2B Adenosine Receptor in Vascular Leakage During Hypoxia," at the University of Colorado in Denver. On April 1, 2009, Dr. Eltzschig’s latest research project, “Extracellular Adenosine during Ventilator Induced Lung Injury,” will begin receiving funding through a National Institutes of Health Research Project Grant (R01) for an initial period of five years. His NIH-funded project is designed to study mechanisms of extracellular adenosine generation, signaling and uptake during acute lung injury, and to target these molecular mechanisms towards lung protection. Acute lung injury is among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in critical care medicine.

Dr. Eltzschig also recently published the findings from his 2007 FAER-supported research in the February 2009 edition of Nature Immunology. His laboratory studied epithelial A2B adenosine signaling during hypoxia, revealing a surprising role for netrin-1, a neuronal guidance molecule, in dampening hypoxia-induced inflammation by enhancing A2B adenosine signaling. You can read the complete article online at http://www.nature.com/ni/journal/v10/n2/index.html.

Dr. Eltzschig is Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Medicine, Mucosal Inflammation Program, and Associate Chair for Basic and Translational Research in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Colorado, Denver.