17th KOURIR awards
Date: 06.10.2017
The 17th KOURIR awards have been given during the PReS pediatric rheumatology conference in Athens to the teams authoring the three best papers about research on JIA submitted to the conference.
Gold medal (1500 €)
Single cell RNA-sequencing of bone marrow macrophages identifies a distinct subpopulation in systemic JIA with features of interferon response, endocytic vesicles and phagocytosis
Grant Schulert 1 *, Nathan Salomonis 2 , Sherry Thornton 1 , Alexei Grom 1
1 Pediatric Rheumatology
2 Biomedical Informatics
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati , United States
Silver medal (1000 €)
Persistence of CD4 memory pathogenic subsets in polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis patients who relapse upon withdrawal of biologic therapy
J. Y. Leong 1 ,*, J. G. Yeo 1 2 , P. Chen 1 , L. Lai 1 , L. D. T. Bathi 1 , J. Tan 2 , T. Arkachaisri 2 3 , D. J. Lovell 4 5 , S. Albani 1 3
1 Singhealth Translational Immunology and Inflammation Centre (STIIC), Singapore Health Services Pte Ltd, Singhealth,
2 KK Women's and Children's Hospital
3 Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
4 Division of Rheumatology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Centre
5 Department of Paediatrics, University of Cincinnati College
Bronze medal (500 €)
Modulating TREG function with nicotinamide (VIT B3) in JIA
L. Nijhuis 1 *, J. Peeters 1 , A. Lalmohamed 2 , J. Van Loosdregt 1 , B. Vastert 3
1 Laboratory of Translational Immunology
2 Department of Clinical Pharmacy
3 Department of Pediatric Immunology, UMC Utrecht, Netherlands
