ERS grants for Best Abstract in Sarcoidosis awarded to Katharina Buschulte and Joanna Werner

Vienna, Austria, 11 September 2024 – Pulmonologists Katharina Buschulte, MD, PhD, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany and Joanna Werner, MD, PhD student, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden were awarded €1,250 ERS grants each during the annual convention of the European Respiratory Society in Vienna, Austria.

Katharina Buschulte was awarded a grant for an abstract titled “Is YouTube a sufficient source of information on Sarcoidosis? Joanna Werner’s abstract found that “Urolithiasis is associated with an  increased risk of sarcoidosis in a cohort in Sweden”.

Through ERS Eurosarcoidosis finances two annual grants for young investigators working in the area of sarcoidosis.

Sarcoidosis or Besnier Boeck disease is a rare and disabling chronic inflammatory disorder with no known cause and no cure. Nodules of inflammatory cells, called granulomas, may interfere with the proper functioning of any organ or tissue. Fatigue is a hallmark of the disease, which may continue even after inflammatory activity itself has abated. Mortality, mostly due to pulmonary and cardiac complications, ranges between six and eight per cent.

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