Poster Winners – 7th World Bronchiectasis Conference

Poster Winners

Diego Maselli

Diego Maselli

Dr. Diego Maselli is a Professor of Medicine at the Division of Pulmonary Diseases & Critical Care at UT Health in San Antonio, Texas, US.  His research focuses on severe asthma, COPD and bronchiectasis.  He is part of the US Bronchiectasis and NTM Research Registry.

Sarah Williams-Macdonald

Sarah Williams-Macdonald

Sarah Williams-Macdonald is an assay development scientist at LifeArc, specialists in Translational Science. Currently she is working on the Chronic Respiratory Infection Translational Challenge, a portfolio of projects aimed at enabling people with bronchiectasis and cystic fibrosis to live longer, with improved quality of life. Sarah completed her PhD at the Royal Veterinary College and then worked as a post-doc at Moredun Research Institute developing a ruminant bacterial vaccine. Sarah lives in Edinburgh and at the weekend enjoys beach walks with her dog.

Martina Santambrogio

Martina Santambrogio

Martina Santambrogio obtained a master’s degree in Biotechnology followed by a PhD in Molecular and Developmental Biology from the Ecole Normale Superieure of Lyon (France). She then received a bachelor’s degree in Physiotherapy from the University of Milan (Italy) specializing in the cardiorespiratory field. Since 2019 she works as a Respiratory Physiotherapist and research fellow in the outpatient bronchiectasis clinic of the Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico di Milano – University of Milan. 

Adrian Trenholme

Adrian Trenholme

School-Ripon Grammar School Yorkshire
1971-1979 – University of Cambridge Gonville and Caius College. Kings College Hospital London. MA MB BChir FRACP.
1979 -1985 – Children’s Hospital Auckland New Zealand
1985-present – Paediatrician Kidz First Children’s Hospital South Auckland
1985 to present – Senior Lecturer University of Auckland
Special interests – Respiratory health, Maaori child health
Research – Respiratory virus infections causing hospitalisation, Non CF Bronchiectasis, Implicit Bias
Outside interests – Family, small block farming, classic motorcycle racing

Jenifer Suntharalingham

Jenifer Suntharalingham

I am a biomedical early career researcher working within the Genetics and Genomic Medicine Department at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (London, UK). My work within the Mitchison laboratory aims to understand the genetic basis of cilia disorders and the clinical impact of genetic variants associated with motile cilia in patients with idiopathic bronchiectasis.

This is a collaborative study with Profs Amelia Shoemark and James Chalmers at University of Dundee, other clinical leads in EMBARC (Profs Loebinger and De Soyza), and the Smedley group at Queen Mary University of London.